EPA Approves Deer Vaccine!

The EPA has approved use of ZonaStat-D to manage deer populations HUMANELY! Here is the EPA letter sent to the counsel for the Humane Society of the United States.

For more information, check the Humane Society's blog.
http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2017/07/epa-gives-thumbs-vaccine-manage-deer-populations-humanely.html

If you’d like to learn more about non-lethal wildlife management, I recommend checking out the Botstiber Institute’s 8th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control, which The HSUS is co-hosting next week in Washington D.C. The use of fertility control for deer populations, as well as many other species, will be discussed by experts from around the world. Register here for the conference.

Note: The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation offered funding for sterilization at virtually no expense to Mt. Lebanon.

Even with the moratorium, the PG keeps score

The PG reported in Mt. Lebanon plans June discussion on deer management

At Monday’s meeting, four residents addressed the topic during public comments, with three supporting lethal measures and one opposed.

Watching Tuesday's meeting, I also noticed that three residents talked about killing deer, even though John Bendel asked us "for the good of the community, we must try to reset the dialogue" while Susan Morgans referred to it as a "cooling off period." The one resident who spoke in opposition had not signed up to speak during Citizen Comments. Before the meeting had started, Susan Morgans saw that Barbara Sollenberger had not signed up and urged her to sign the sheet. Barbara declined. It wasn't until after she heard the three residents supporting lethal measures did Barbara decide to bring up her analysis of population density of Mt. Lebanon's contiguous communities and inquire about the status of the sterilization application. Her population density statistics, based on the 2010 Census, should be printed on T-shirts!

Again, Mt. Lebanon has 5468 people/sq. mile.

The killing fields:
Upper St. Clair has 1958.5 people/sq. mile.
Bethel has 2768.7 people/sq. mile.

Communities opposed to lethal methods:
Castle Shannon 5207.3 people/sq. mile.
Dormont 11,306.6 people/sq. mile.
Baldwin Township 3984 people/sq. mile.
Scott Township has 4277.4 people/sq. mile.

Just an FYI Fox Chapel has 690 people/sq. mile and they kill deer. Barbara said you could shoot charging rhinos in Fox Chapel because their density is so low.
If Peters is killing deer, their density comes out to 1077.3 people/sq. mile.

I hope the commissioners seriously consider density when they have their deer management discussion session on June 22. Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Mayor Peter Swiderski was quoted as saying, "You can’t walk around on quarter-acre zoning with a crossbow.” An FYI, a quarter acre property is 10,912.5 square feet. My lot is 5500 square feet.

Deer Proof Your Garden UPDATED

Susan Morgans can't help herself. Read the last paragraph of her press release.