Strieter-Lite® reflectors to dramatically reduce Deer Vehicle Accident

Strieter-Lite® reflectors to dramatically reduce Deer Vehicle Accident and other non-lethal way to co-exist with urban wildlife

The Problem

Every year deer-vehicle collisions take a huge toll in lives, money and time.

Last year there were: 1

    * An estimated actual 1,500,000 deer-vehicle collisions.
    * Over 110 deaths and tens of thousands of injuries.
    * Over $1.2 billion in property damage.
    * Escalating insurance premiums.
    * Increasing carcass removal costs.
    * Increasing accident investigation costs.

1. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

 In a report published in September, 2009, State Farm indicated that the deer-vehicle collision frequency across the United States has jumped 18% in the last five years!  To put it another way, one of these unfortunate encounters occurs every 26 seconds (although they are much more likely during the last three months of the year and in the early evening).  The average property damage cost of these incidents was $3,050, up 3.4 percent from a year ago.

The report includes a U.S. map showing the percentage increase in each state.  For example, California (22%), Oregon (9%), Washington (19%), Colorado (19%), Nebraska (54%), Iowa (17%), Minnesota (9%), Illinois (3%), Michigan (14%), New York (28%), North Carolina (33%), Florida (38%), Alabama (16%), Texas (33%).
But there is a solution . . .
http://www.strieter-lite.com/sites.html

From Cayuga Heights Website.

For example, there are roadside reflector technologies such as the Streiter-lite system, which uses reflected light from the headlights of oncoming cars to alert deer. This system has been installed in numerous locations around the world. Its effectiveness in reducing deer-vehicle collisions has been studied, showing results of 78-90% (see graph at right which shows accident rates before and after installation of reflectors).9


There is a Strieter-lite system installation in Owego, New York, just 30 miles South of Ithaca. According to the Owego traffic engineer, the reduction of deer-vehicle collisions has been high, nearly 100%.10 The cost of installing this system may also be reduced by federal grant support.11



Another promising technology, the Roadside Animal Detection System (RADS), takes a different approach. RADS uses radio sensors to detect large animals approaching a roadway. If an animal gets too near a road, the sensor activates a warning signal, alerting drivers to be cautious and slow down. One study in Switzerland found that such animal detection systems produced a reduction in collisions of up to 82 percent.12




Fencing is another proven alternative which can be used on its own or in combination with the options shown above. According to several studies, wildlife fencing, if used correctly, has the documented potential to reduce deer-vehicle collsions dramatically. One study in Banff, Alberta, for example, showed that fencings systems reduced collisions by 80%.13
There is also data suggesting that vehicle speed is correlated with the rate of deer-vehicle collisions, so more strict enforcement of the speed limit may be helpful. Community education programs that teach drivers how to drive more safely and avoid deer-vehicle collisions could further contribute to a reduction of collision risk.
Each of these alternatives to a bait and shoot program offers a documented potential to significantly reduce the risk of deer-vehicle collsions, and without negative side-effects, including the safety risks associated with the annual discharge of weapons in a densely settled community. Mayor Gilmore has spoken at a public meeting of allocating initial funding of $50,000 to a deer killing program. And as outside experts who have spoken at meetings have confirmed, a bait and shoot program is not a one-time solution, but rather a yearly endeavor.14 Thus, the public safety risks, the cost to tax payers, and the moral weight of killing human-habituated deer would continue to accrue year after year.
We can do better. Resources invested in sensible, nonviolent alternatives are a far better investment as they will provide immediate results, and will continue to offer value to the community for years to come.

http://www.cayugadeer.org/alternatives.htm

Deer Contraception WORKS and IT WORKS WELL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBxVySosLk

According to Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick, deer contraception expert, who explains the startling successes in deer contraception, its authorization for use and availability. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the founder and Director of the Science and
Conservation Center, Montana. He has worked with
contraception on 90 species of animals, including wild horses, several species of deer, African elephants and water buffalo .

For more information, please visit: www.pzpinfo.org

Wildlife Contraception Response to DNRE Supervisor
http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2010/10/wildlife-contraception-response-to-dnre.html




http://www.triorganics.com/g/Deer_resistant_garden?gclid=CIXTkNe0s6YCFQty5QodXCLQnQ



http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Neighbors-Humane-Approach-Wildlife/dp/1555913091



Humane Alternatives
http://www.netandboltcruelty.net/humane.htm

Overall the hunting industry wants to ignore all humane solution to "deal" with deer because they want to continue to make the public believe that hunting is the "only" solution when in fact hunting is the problem.

Same with our bear


How to co-exist with bears peacefully and also there is a section on bear birth control ( wildlife contraception. )
http://www.bearsmart.com/

Deer Birth Control Could Prevent Collisions - FANTASTIC ARTICLE1

Deer Birth Control Could Prevent Collisions

Analysis by Tim Wall Thu Sep 1, 2011 02:44 PM ET

“Sorry deer, not in the mood tonight, or this season, or for the next five years, in fact” said the doe on birth control.
A birth control injection for deer puts them completely out of the mood to mate for up to five years without a booster. GonaCon, as the birth control is called, even eliminates dangerous and destructive courtship behaviors responsible for the autumn increase in collisions between cars and deer.
The birth control shot is actually a vaccine that causes the deer to produce antibodies against a key hormone, Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which triggers production of sex hormones. GnRH kicks in when days get shorter and triggers many animals from northern latitudes to get feisty for the mating season.
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Other deer birth control vaccines prevent pregnancy, but they don't stop the animals from exhibiting mating behaviors, said David Goldade of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service/Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) in Fort Collins, Colo., where GonaCon was developed.
"That opens the door to dangerous situations in which males chase females across the highway. With GonaCon, however, vaccinated deer don't even try to mate," Goldade said in a press release.
Goldade recently reported on the new vaccine at the 242nd National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society.
The vaccine causes deer to produce antibodies that destroy the GnRH before it can ever trigger the sex hormones. USDA studies on white-tailed deer, free-ranging California ground squirrels, captive Norway rats, domestic and feral swine and wild horses have shown GonaCon to be effective in a wide range of animals.
The birth control vaccine could even be useful for pets and domesticated animals that have not been spayed or neutered. In cats, for example, scent-spraying, fighting, wandering, and caterwauling could be controlled.
The vaccine was designed to control the wild deer population, but there are a few drawbacks. Though it is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, it must also be registered with state agencies. So far, only Maryland and New Jersey have approved its use.
Also, the vaccine has to be injected into a captured and sedated deer by a USDA or state game and fish department staff member. Capturing, sedating, and vaccinating hundreds of thousands of deer would be time-consuming and expensive.
Where are all these deer coming from? If not for recreational hunting we would not have this many deer

Compensatory Rebound Effect (CRE) is why killing does not work .

Are hunting industry deliberately producing deer for recreational hunting? plus what is "Compensatory Rebound Effect"?? 

Realities of hunting as a population control: Why there are so many deer today

Wildlife Contraception Response to DNRE Supervisor

But the benefits of controlling deer populations may be worth it.
Encounters with deer can be deadly. In the approximately 1.5 million deer-auto collisions, an average 150 people die each year. Deer populations have exploded in the past few decades.
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A lack of natural predators and reduced hunting pressure has allowed deer to become common and expand into urban areas. At the same time, humans spread further out into rural areas that were once deer habitat. These two factors combine and result in damage to property when deer eat crops and landscaping plants.
Deer cause an estimated $1 billion in property damage per year.
IMAGE 1: A male white-tailed deer (Wikimedia Commons)
IMAGE 2: A white-tailed deer fawn (Wikimedia Commons)

Only Soulless humans can kill with a bow and arrow Part 3 Compilation

Psychopaths
"....was, until 1980, the term used for a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal...Psychopaths lack a sense of guilt or remorse for any harm they may have caused others, instead rationalizing the behavior, blaming someone else, or denying it outright, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Rader, the infamous “BTK” (Bind, Torture, Kill) murderer—have manifested numerous psychopathic traits, including superficial charm and a profound absence of guilt and empathy."






Recreational hunters,  INTENTIONALLY go out there to kill for fun with no care in the world even with a stuffed fridge and belly. There is absolutely NO limit to the amount of cruelty that hunters can inflict upon the innocent sentient beings , they can spine shoot them for the video (got lots of that), they can shoot the animals in anyway they want because in American cruelty to forest animals is considered "sports", an "outdoorsman" or "conservation" ( all that euphemistic garbage). Now that part is cleared lets get to excuse #2. "Have you see what those wolves do to the animals rip them to shred alive" etc etc. Yes I have and horrible to watch but that is part of life and death in the wild, some animal will succumb quickly to the predators kill some may take longer but their killing is out of hunger and their prey are the weaker, the starving, the smaller to keep the strong healthy genes where the "sportsman" do the opposite. Now let me tell you what happens to the animals when sports hunters (bowhunters especially) leave the animals to die sometimes for hours and even overnight, you always hear the hunters says "I hope the coyote or wolves did not get to them" meaning the animals could not even defend themselves in their wound dying they were eaten alive by the carnivores of the wild and all because of sick humans who wants to kill for sports and trophy. The does and yearlings they wont bother to search if they know it would be too hard to find but the big antlered "trophy" deer yes they will go all out, even half eaten they will bring home the deer for the sake of the antler. Pitiful isn't it? In this video you will see many talk about the "wait" which means the recommended waiting time for the animal to die from bowhunting usually minimum of 30-45 minutes. Bowhunters tries to deny this to the public but I watch, I listen carefully to EVERY WORDS that bowhunters says and don't miss a thing. Is there any remorse or guilt from them? ABSOLUTELY NONE! Instead it's the high fives and fist pumping as they speak in whisper not to spook the stil alive but suffering deer any further. Imagine a human capable of cheering as the animal is dying, an animal with the same physiology of humans is dying some drowning in their own blood, hemorrhaging  to death or what ever horrific suffering that comes from a bow and arrow whether it's compound or crossbow all death to an animal by an arrow is never "quick" and it's the kind of death not one of these killers would ever want to experience.
Now lets talk about the fawns, yes they kill fawns with spots but in the hunting industry they want to make sure you get the female not the male for they need the male for future trophy deer. (click here) Plus they want to save enough food for the does to have more babies and the growing fawn buck for future killing (they call it fawn recruits). Yearlings too, yearlings are very close to their siblings but in the bowhunting public ( I especially witness the killings of babies by bowhunters) they will injure or kill the button buck but mostly the female yearling because I see other hunters comments of anger not because of the yearling killing but because of the "taking out" of "future trophy deer". When one of the sibling is injured or killed the other will follow as if grieving. About does (female deer) Bowhunters have no qualms about killing does with babies http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-doe-right-here-came-looking-for.html  and does are very protective of them too and still the high fives and the whisper of "yahoos" for the camera. Today's hunting I like the public to know is NOT about survival and food, some may eat the "backstrap" (what a joke) I had seen it and it's so laughable and the rest are either dumped to the pantries or the forest ground. The killers (sports hunters) not for a moment think that that the unsavory part of the deer carcass is where CWD is and they continue to poison the pantries.(click here) as the Government lies on the serious danger of CWD (Prions) is to humans. We do have many vegetarian "feed the hungry" but the Government who gets loads of money from the NRA never speak of people like "Food Not Bombs" click here

because they are about feeding the poor vegetarian food with love and compassion and to stop the war. Their message is to use the money to feed the poor rather then to kill people in the war. I am getting off subject but that is part of the reason why so many deer tags are able to be sold because there is the pantries to "give" to not caring whether there is possiblity of all kinds of wildlife diseases such as bovine TB, parasites, worms (several types) and the most dangerous of all Prions from CWD which is now in 13 states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The deer numbers are here because of hunting and the number continue to rise so does the deer vehicle accidents. The hunting industry knows about Compensatory Rebound Effect (CRE) meaning that the surviving deer will have more food and food is what cause more fawn births (twins and triplets) where if there is not enough food the womb will "eat up" the embryo or fail to ovulate. It's all part of the natural eco-balance that the hunting industry destroys. Then of course we all know they kill off deer's natural predators such as the coyotes which they call "varmints". The hunting industry despise any animals that will naturally reduce the numbers and may even eat that trophy deer they been eyeing to get for couple of years like serial killers do with certain victims. click here

Why are there so many wounded and crippled deer ? Why are there always bad shots where it takes deer , elk and other large hunted animals to die a slow excruciatingly painful death even if the bowhunters think they are "Robin hood" when practicing on a non moving object?  


Jumping the String



"Animals have an extraordinary ability to dodge arrows. This attribute wasn’t understood until the behavior of white-tailed deer was captured on videotape and studied carefully. Deer can take flight with uncanny speed at the slightest hint of danger, particularly unnatural sound, including the sound of a bow twanging. This phenomenon is called “jumping the string.”

"A deer may appear broadside when it is actually quartering slightly toward, or away. And that angle could mean the difference between a double-lung or single-lung, lethal or non-lethal hit. If I had a dollar for every deer I recovered that I mistakenly thought was broadside when I shot, I could buy a dozen good arrows."

Disposition
A deer's behavior may influence when, or even if, you should shoot. Precise numbers don't exist, but we know that a whitetail's reflexes are extremely quick. Sound travels at 1,125.79 feet per second (fps). Meanwhile, even the fastest compound bows spew arrows at less than half that rate. This leaves a deer ample time to react, particularly if it's alert, which is often the case when rattling, calling aggressively or when the deer catches sight or scent of you. It's a judgment call you often have to make instantaneously, but a better option may be to wait until the deer relaxes, or pass up the shot, particularly if it's a longer shot. Alert deer reduce your maximum effective range. The farther away a deer is, the more time it has to react. A well-aimed arrow could be far enough off the mark to result in a clean miss, or worse.
A deer's reflexes can sometimes be so fast even a well-placed hit can result in some weird and unexpected results. I've seen arrows enter a deer dead on the mark and exit at angles that defy the laws of physics. Sometimes it's the result of deflection off bone.
Other times, it's purely reaction speed."

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html


Why are there so many wounded and crippled deer ? Why are there always bad shots where it takes deer , elk and other large hunted animals to die a slow excruciatingly painful death even if the bowhunters think they are "Robin hood" when practicing on a non moving object? Here are few of the reasons besides the fact that man are not meant to kill. "Men" who thinks they are part of "predator and prey" is a joke !!



Jumping the String

"Animals have an extraordinary ability to dodge arrows. This attribute wasn’t understood until the behavior of white-tailed deer was captured on videotape and studied carefully. Deer can take flight with uncanny speed at the slightest hint of danger, particularly unnatural sound, including the sound of a bow twanging. This phenomenon is called “jumping the string.”


"A deer may appear broadside when it is actually quartering slightly toward, or away. And that angle could mean the difference between a double-lung or single-lung, lethal or non-lethal hit. If I had a dollar for every deer I recovered that I mistakenly thought was broadside when I shot, I could buy a dozen good arrows."


Disposition

A deer's behavior may influence when, or even if, you should shoot. Precise numbers don't exist, but we know that a whitetail's reflexes are extremely quick. Sound travels at 1,125.79 feet per second (fps). Meanwhile, even the fastest compound bows spew arrows at less than half that rate. This leaves a deer ample time to react, particularly if it's alert, which is often the case when rattling, calling aggressively or when the deer catches sight or scent of you. It's a judgment call you often have to make instantaneously, but a better option may be to wait until the deer relaxes, or pass up the shot, particularly if it's a longer shot. Alert deer reduce your maximum effective range. The farther away a deer is, the more time it has to react. A well-aimed arrow could be far enough off the mark to result in a clean miss, or worse.

A deer's reflexes can sometimes be so fast even a well-placed hit can result in some weird and unexpected results. I've seen arrows enter a deer dead on the mark and exit at angles that defy the laws of physics. Sometimes it's the result of deflection off bone.

Other times, it's purely reaction speed."

http://www.bowhuntingmag.com/tactics/BH_wounding_1109/index1.html


The difficulty in shooting arrows accurately offers a partial explanation for the high woundingand crippling loss. Unlike bullets, which fly in a more like linear path, arrows loop. As Benkesays: they rainbow. Whereas a gun hunter takes dead aim at an animal, an archer mustestimate the distance from the target and adjust the shot to compensate for the rainbow trajectory of the arrow.

Considering that bowhunters often shoot from tree stands or position themselves on slopedterrains, they become anxious when an animal is finally within range. This is known amongbowhunters as “buck fever.”

This beautiful buck deer was left to suffer and die overnight, body ended up half eaten by coyote most likely buck was still alive when he was attacked  but "thank God" for the bowhunter the rack was still intact and he made sure to find that deer.



Just close your eyes and imagine a death like these
Gut Shot Deer - Imagine yourself dying this way! click here
Spine Shot Deer - The terror for deer, the excitement of cruelty for bowhunter click here


"Ethical" Hunter says "let the deer lay up and die"

Bowhunters damning comments of killing does, pregnant does and fawns.click here
Bowhunters says "Rage is like hitting a deer with an ax" click here

2 VERY IMPORTANT SIGNATURES TO SIGN MOSTLY THE NEWEST ONE

QUICK KILL HUNTING ACT (Which pretty helps to abolish bowhunting)
click here

Abolish Bowhunting and end the brutality!!!click here for petition


It's 2011 We do not need barbarism in our parks and forest. We have tons of choices to "manage" deer and to co-exist peacefully with them.  They too are a beautiful creatures of God and do not deserve the pain and suffering from sick human monsters.

Deer Contraception Works and IT WORKS WELL according to Jay Kirkpatrick and Wildlife Contraception expert. click here

(Reminded the State Wildlife Agencies has their own "biologist" that will mislead the public on the effectiveness of Wildlife Contraception obviously because they want the abundance of deer to sell tags each year and rake in those blood money). 

Compensatory Rebound Effect (CRE) is why killing does not work . click here

Few blogger that everyone should read by Katherine McGill (She is not an "anti-hunter and neither am I)  We undertand there are those who do have to hunt for survival but recreational hunting today is NOTHING about that. 

 Realities of hunting as a population control: Why there are so many deer today click here

Wildlife Conservation has an agenda - our taxes ensure unsound management
 click here

‎"The judges agreed, saying the hunting laws exempt people from animal mistreatment charges. "

("mistreatment" meaning cruelty charges)

Anthony Marr's new project idea - DAA/IC - For Non-Lethal Deer Management.

The DAA/IC concept: Anthony Marr's new project idea - DAA/IC


I conceived this new IC deleivery method over the last 3 years - since I took up the fight in the urban deer culling issue back in 2006 in OH/PA. I have invented a system called DAA/IC, standing for Deer-Auto-Assembler/Immuno-Contraception, which the hunters dread like the plague, but which they have so far prevented from being field deployed. There are 3 reasons for this:

1. Opposition from hunters, because the DAA/IC, once field implemented, will erase all their excuses to hunt deer in urban, suburban and semi-rural areas, as well as urban parks. Since immunocontraceptive vaccines have been approved by both the FDA and the EPA, the area of the hunters' attack has been the labor-intensiveness and expensiveness of the current vaccine delivery systems (see below).

2. Opposition from simplistic ideological groups like Friends of Animals against IC, spearheaded by people like Lee Hall, who maintains that unlike cats and dogs, deer are wild, and should not be interfered with, without regard for the fact that they have already been negatively interfered with by the hunters and farmers who have eradicated the natural predators, and who in fact deliberately cultivate a high deer population by means of food-plots for hunting purposes.

3. The lack of a working model. I have made presentations on this device to about a dozen city councils and even county executives. As they were listening, I could see that they were personally intrigued by the idea, but they are usually hunter-influenced, and their challenge to see a working model cannot be met, since, the idea being original, there is none.

At least not in America. Back in the late 1990s, I worked in 3 tigers reserves in India, and the idea originally stemmed from there. One of the problems to deal with was deer (Cheetal) coming out of the parks to raid the surrounding farm land. One of my challenges was to round them up and move them back into the park. Considering that they are extremely fleet-footed, the only thing that could work was the Deer Auto Assembler

The Deer Auto Assembler (DAA)

The DAA is an extremely simple device, comprising nothing more than fencing and one-way gates.



The DAA I set up in India was no bigger than a basketball court. I installed one inward-facing one-way gate on each side of the enclosure, put some food inside, and just let it sit. Within days, the DAA would be full of deer, which we then transported back into the park. How this could be used to combat the hunters and solve deer population problems is as follows:

Suppose there is an urban park 2-sq.mi. (1280 acres) in size. Suppose independent biologists estimate (average of at least 3) that the carrying capacity of the park is 20 deer per sq.mi. The maximum number of deer in the park without negative environmental impact then is 20 x 2 = 40.

Suppose an accurate deer count has been performed, and the deer population has been determined to be 70. The government would announce that 70 - 40 = 30 deer need to be "culled", and the bow-hunters would "volunteer" themselves to do it for free as a service to the community. The truth of course is that the whole thing is initiated by hunters from the start, for hunting purposes.

Of course, carrying capacities are usually estimated conservatively. If the population has been culled down to 40, it often would mean that it is below the carrying capacity, and the population would re-expand according to the Compensatory Rebound Effect, and the culling will return thereafter, year after year, as the hunters want it.

My solution is as follows:

1. Set up a DAA of about 10-50 acres, preferably in a scenic wooded area, using deer fence (8' min.) and inward one-way gates. Place food inside the gates and let it sit, while keeping count. After 30 deer have entered the DAA, close the gates.

2. Apply IC on the deer inside the DAA: A sub-mechanism of the DAA is a small internal compartment in one corner with an inward one-way gate, where the deer can be easily immunized and tagged., then released back into the main part of the DAA.

The inward one-way gate into the compartment leads into a narrow chute through which only one deer could pass at a time. The chute ends at a feeding trough, beside which is an outward one-way gate operated manually by an operator.

The chute should be draped in black fabric so that the deer will be calm, with the human operator concealed from view. At the food trough, where the feeding deer's rump would be, a U-shaped incision is cut in the fabric, creating a hole covered by a flap. When the deer is feeding, the flap is lifted, the pellet is injected, the tag is attached, and the deer is returned to the main body of the DAA through the exit gate.

Inside the dark chamber, the injection would be no more alarming to the deer than a black-fly bite. No man-handling is required. The deer is not stressed, and is very definitely marked as having been immunized. Other than constructing the DAA initially, very little human labor is needed to operate it.

Some new advances have been made for the delivery of solid pellets by darting, but the draw-backs of darting remain, and nothing yet is better than the DAA for effectiveness, efficiency and economy.

3. Feed the deer inside the DAA to keep them healthy and prevent environmental damage. An observation tower can be built inside the DAA for wildlife viewing purposes.

4. The following year, do another deer count. Suppose the number counted is, say, 60, then let 20 into the DAA, again leaving 40 outside, and immunize the 20. Deer life span averages 3-4 years in the wild. In the absence of predation, it would be longer, but by 7 years of age, their teeth would have been worn down to next to nothing. So over the years, the older deer will die off, the population inside the DAA will decline and stabilize at the level maintained by the yearly infusion of younger deer.

Problem solved, without any deer needing to be killed in any given year.

It's proven difficult to persuade any government to use their own city park or urban area as a testing ground for an "untried" idea, so, we'll have to set up a working model on a piece of private land where land is cheap and deer are considered overabundant. If such a piece of land and start-up money be available (mainly for fencing), the DAA can be set up immediately. IC is inexpensive if performed by volunteers, each 3-year dose of vaccine costing less than $50. The project should run for about 5 years minimum.

Once the concept is proven, I see no way any government could logically refuse to at least give it a try in their own parks and urban/suburb areas. And if luck is with us, we might even be able to find one government willing to try out the concept in a problem area, especially if we offer to fund and run the project as a pilot ourselves.

Anthony

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ENOUGH WITH THE CRUEL AND SADISTIC FORM OF DEER "MANAGEMENT" WHICH IN REALITY IS A SHAM (Read previous blogs)

Listen to what Jay Kirkpatrick a wildlife contraception expert says that IC deer birth control.




"It works and it works well", "60% deer herd reduction"

They IC bison, don't they? Why not deer ?

Look what they’re doing with bison:




Catalina bison going on birth control


“The Catalina Island Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that owns 88% of the island and is charged with preserving its wild state, believes the program will be a cost-effective, socially acceptable and humane method of controlling the herd. In Defense of Animals, an advocacy group, agrees and has donated a quarter of the cost of the $200,000, five-year program.”

PZP has proven to be equally as effective with deer.



Obviously the reason the hunting organization reject deer birth control is that they are too busy ensuring there be an abundance of deer year after year to satisfy the recreational killers. click here

Whitetails are the biggest blood money maker for the killing industry and they need a need the continuous deer production.

Lyme disease, hunting and few other facts

Hunting Will Not Eliminate Lyme Disease.

All mammals (except bats), 49 bird species and pets can serve as hosts for Lyme disease infected ticks. The tick's preferred host is the white footed mouse, not deer. The American Lyme Disease Foundation has stated that it does not recommend killing deer as a way to control Lyme Disease. Killing deer may increase the amount of food and cover available for mice, birds and other hosts, which in turn will boost their numbers and escalate the spread of the disease. If hunting is an effective means of controlling Lyme disease, then Pennsylvania -one of our nation's most heavily hunted states -would not be among the four states with the highest incidence of Lyme. Hunting will not eliminate Lyme disease.

INEFFECTIVENESS AND DANGERS OF HUNTING

Hunting Increases Deer - Car Collisions
According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, most car/deer collisions happen during hunting season. Pennsylvania's second largest insurance company (the nation's 12th largest insurer) - Erie Insurance - collected data in 1997 which showed:

• 50 % of all deer-car collision claims occurs during
  October, November and December -primarily due to hunting. Hunters will claim that this is mating season but it's not. Deer mate in October - a time when the deer-car collision rate was 1600. The vast majority of deer-car collision claims - i.e. 4524 claims - occurred in November to December during hunting season not mating season.
• The counties with the highest number of deer-car collisions were among the most heavily hunted counties based on statistics from Erie Insurance and the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
• Pennsylvania Deer-car collisions averaged 34 deer claims per day for the year. But on the first day of buck season the average was 157 and on the first day of doe season it was 160 - a five-fold increase!
• Hunting of deer predators Habitat modification including clear-cutting to enhance "edge" habitat and planting vegetation for deer.

Deer too have interest in living and do not want to die



WHAT THE PUBLIC CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO HELP PROMOTE THE NON LETHAL DEER OPTIONS GO HERE