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(put at top)#1: What Solon residents need to know about the city’s deer “management” plan.

The purpose of this website is to raise awareness about the truth behind urban/suburban hunting of deer, using Solon Ohio’s failed “management plan” as a microcosm.  Why is Solon repeating its mistake? “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”

Currently:  If you are concerned about the costly and inhumane slaughter of deer in Solon, you've come to the right place.  Stay tuned to this collection of web services to fight against hunting interests in our city of Solon.

There are many non-lethal and effective alternatives to killing wildlife every year only to have them regain their strength, rebound their population, only to repeat the killing the following year at great expense.

ADD TO HOME PAGE #2: 

“Master Plan: The Truth Behind Urban Deer Kills:” How did we get into this terrible mess? Terry Moore, former New York State Wildlife Director, told hunters “We shall attempt to raise the numbers of deer until we experience high incidents of deer-car collisions, depredation of agricultural crops becomes intolerable and the effects of deer habitat result in deterioration to increase the success rate of big-game hunters.”

Suburban deer kills originate with the Ohio Division of Wildlife – their master plan is to bring suburban hunting to the fore in order to recruit more hunters (hyperlink here for deer culling national blueprint). Hunting is declining, so ODNR is attempting to ramp up efforts to enlist more hunters. ODNR is nothing more than a state-run hunting club.

Taxpayers, insurance companies, the public-at-large and, last but not least, our native cervine/deer populations pay the highest price for Solon and other communities' thoughtless politics.

FOR BOTH GLOSSARY and HOME PAGE #3:  “Rebound – Hunting to control population is a manufactured myth used to justify hunting. Deer can out-reproduce any extermination plan. Deer respond with higher birth rates. Less deer (after hunting) + the same abundant food source = better overall health, increasing the fertility of female deer and causing them to conceive earlier and give birth to twins and triplets. The population rebounds to higher than before the hunt. The biological impact of killing is shielded from the public.” (also, be sure to add link to Katherine McGill’s story re: rebound here, both home page and glossary:  http://www.examiner.com/urban-wildlife-in-national/realities-of-hunting-as-a-population-control-why-so-many-deer).   DONE!

ADD THE FOLLOWING TO DVA DETERRANTS: Streiter Lights, a warning system where a grid of lights is activated on roads when CARS deer approach, has been used with exceptional success, including one area in Solon!   Add DeerDeter   DONE!  




NonLethal GARDENS/NOT DVA   "Planting mostly native gardens, flowers and other flora, along with learning more eco-friendly gardening techniques has added benefit of deer resistant plants. 

(Add Sandy Baker aka “The Deer Doctor” links LINK ADDED). 

Birth control/immunocontraception: the Ohio Division of Wildlife legislated against birth control in order to keep its annual revenue high; the majority of Ohio DOW’s profits come from hunting. Hunting = their paychecks. Birth control has been used with success in other states, as native PZP and gonacon.

ADD A LINK: EXPERTS’ OPINIONS: Please add Katherine McGill’s complete copy (copyrighted? Link?) + link from above here. Also, any other links from Lane re: experts’ opinions. Lane, pls. send to John Kirkpatrick’s comments and opinions.

I'd suggest that we have a multi-level response to not overwhelm people, the most important documents can have a teaser on the Site, linking to a blog post.  The secondary articles would be in the public blog under the appropriate category.  Items posted in the blog should have an abstract (longer than a teaser) and use the Read More feature.


Items in Orange need updating


Items is Blue are on site.

Do we have following links?

CONTACT - Send email to address forwarded to Google Group
[ form, ?phone#, ?addr See Contacts post]

LOHV - Done see Links in sidebar

PETITION - need to investigate see Tech labeled posts - Will likely use Change.org and/or Google Forms See Label Petition

DONATIONS - Google has a button but only for official non-profits, PayPal is popular but not everyone has it

SURVEY - Blog has simple poll feature, SurveyMonkey and Polldaddy have limit of 100 response on their free service.  Loophole without security, which people don't like, you can't tell if someone answered twice.  Could also use Google Form