Safe Back Yards

After the Denicola letter re how ineffective bow hunting is we need to have the bow hunting report with quotes from many park and dnr bio's which is in the GREAT report on Safebackyards.com

I did send the link before. Here it is again just in case. It is EXCELLENT
http://www.safebackyards.com/Report%20on%20Bowhunting.pdf


Item is already posted here.  What should we add?

Deer Counting Dup

Do You have the source letter?
TOO MANY CAPS!  Sarcasm may not be effective.


this is a duplicate. 


The Herald Sun (Jan 12, '06)

Dave Hromco, former assistant public works director and overseer of the deer mgmt plan initially said Davis aviation in Kent counted 762 deer in Solon. He later acknowledged that Davis counted 670 in Solon and an additional 92 in Glenwillow for a total 0f 762.

Glenwillow deer were included in Solon counts in 2004 too and city officials DON'T SEEM TO KNOW WHY.
Mayor Kevin Patton and Hromco said THEY WEREN'T SURE WHY. Hromco said maybe because the deer migrate between Solon and Glenwillow.


When Hromco was asked why then, Solon's deer count did NOT INCLUDE the other bordering communities--TWINSBURG, BAINBRIDGE, REMINDERVILLE, BENTLEYVILLE, MORELAND HILLS, ORANGE, and BEDFORD HTS AND OAKWOOD-- HE DIDN'T KNOW.


Heinz said the counts DID INCLUDE the neighboring areas...

Deer Counting

Too bad I didn't get this to you before Fri's meeting.

[Do we have original article?]

From the Solon Herald Sun 1/12/06

Dave Hromco, assistant director of public works initially said Davis Aviation in Kent counted 762 deer in Solon. He later acknowledged that Davis counted 670 on Solon and an additionl 92 in Glen Willow for a total of 762.

Glen Willow deer were included in Solon counts in 2004 too and city officials don't seem to know why.

Using Blogger

Anyone can comment on a post, click on "n comments" or the Blog post title and you can see the whole post with an option to comment at the end.  You can see various categories of posts by clicking on a Label in the sidebar (or at the bottom of a post).

To post to Blogger you must be invited as an author and be signed in.  If you are visiting the blog, you can click "Sign in" in the upper right corner.  If not, you can go to blogger.com and sign in.  When you sign in you will be taken to a "Dashboard" showing all the blogs you can be an author to.  It will also say "Create new blog", this is to define a completely new blog.

You can write a new post by clicking "New Post" next to the corresponding blog.  You can also click "Edit Posts" to see a list of all posts, you can only edit your own posts, you can view all of them.  You can also click on "View Blog" to see the whole blog.

From the Dashboard or from the Posting Tab there is another choice - Edit Posts.  This will give you a listing of each post.  You can change the number of Posts Per Page in the upper right corner.   For each post you can View it (or Edit it if you wrote it), you can see if it has comments.  On the sidebar you can filter by Label (for example Active, VerDraft, or another category.  You can search for posts in the top left search box, you can also select All or Published to undo a filter and see all posts (top center).  You can also see the post content (without its final formatting) quickly by clicking the sideways arrow next to a post, clicking the down arrow collapses the post again.

Any questions, post them here as a comment or send me an email.

Document Storage

Our main file storage is on the ScribD service and can be found here - scribd.com/solondeer/ ,

Should we add this link to all sidebars?

Should we have a Files or Document page on the Main Site which points to ScribD and has its own file attachments?  Or have everything on ScribD?

We have several options for document storage

1. ScribD
   Isn't part of Google Apps, well suited for public documents, not suited for private docs because of separate ID.
   
2. Google Docs
   -- Is part of Google Apps, embed is not well developed.  Suitable for private Docs as Contributors will have Google ID.
   -- Forms option suitable for surveys, petitions, and databases
   -- Suitable for collaborative docs where multiple contributors edit a document (vs the blog where you can only edit your own posts)
   
3. Files Page on the Main Site
   There is a special page format for files, click here for example.
   
4. Attachment to a Main Site Page
   Each regular page (not Home, Announcement pages) can have a file attachment, see this page.

Attention, residents: Solon will start deer culling again.

    Solon will once again be rolling out the red carpet for their wildlife deer assassin, Anthony DeNicola, president of White Buffalo.

   Here it is, year number 5, in the two-year deer management plan and Solon officials have deemed this ethical travesty a success.

   I find it abhorrent that Solon officials define success as a high body count. I find it equally abhorrent that Solon has added annual deer slaughter to its list of the mundane winter schedule -i.e., snow plowing, salting streets, slaughtering deer, putting up Christmas lights, etc. with such thoughtlessness and ruthlessness. Who is representing the moral majority?

   Since the decision makers rubber stamp the continued slaughter, without putting any additional measures in place, we are on the predicted treadmill of slaughter.

   Why would Solon, in these economical times, be so willing to throw good money after bad? I think it's fair for residents to assume that this will be a perpetual expenditure that can't even be justified as paying for itself.

   I'll remember this when I go to the voting polls next fall.

Carol Starcher

2008

Posted, please add this info - Newspaper?  Date? 

HOPE Link

Heal Our Planet Earth
http://www.hope-care.org/

has a page on Deer at
http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/deer.htm

the page http://www.all-creatures.org/hope/DOE/index.htm
it has 2 links, one is not active.

Is there any material we want to reference?

Solicitation Issues

What are we allowed to do and where can we do it?
We need good legal advice as we are likely to be challenged.

Can we sit at a table in the community center with a sign?
Will that be considered "solicitation"?
Are we allowed to approach people, or just sit passively until someone comes up to us?

Can we knock on doors with a "no solicitation" sticker (political exemption)?

Lawn sign rules?

• One sign per yard
• Not in right of way (tree lawn)
• 30 day rule on political signs doesn't apply to this "free speech statement sign".

Possible places:

• Community Center
• Pavilion at Community Park
• Earth Day
• Giant Eagle & Marcs

Lots of updates  needed per emails....

Flyer

What do we want in it?

Timing?  Compared to Ballot Initiative and Yard Signs?

Deliver City wide?  Or public places?

DVA Documents

Both Strieter Lites and DeerDeter provided several documents...

Could write summary posts and embed the documents in the post.

Could also attach the documents to DVA Deterrent Main Site Page (but there isn't much room to summarize, unless we do a summary graph on the page).

DVA Deterrents Effective

DVA Deterents are much less costly, but also more effective.

In a 5 year study of one device you can see a dramatic decrease in DVAs.

Contrast this to the very expensive 5 years of deer culling in Solon, which made only a modest reduction in DVA.

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[Need to hard code overrides to expand photo.]

Or maybe just take the raw data from each and build new graphs...

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An Unlikely Ally

Its no surprise that deer advocates are against hunting, what is more surprising is when a major proponent of deer culling with a PhD takes a stand against hunting. Not only did the founder of White Buffalo, the city's sharpshooter, take this stand, he communicated this to our public works commissioner in January this year before that same person proposed a bow hunting program.

WhiteBuffalo on Hunting


Any comments, suggestions on the intro text?


Posted here.

Google Registration

Most of the Web Services for Solon Deer are under the Google Apps umbrella.  The general public will be able to access services without logging in.  Contributors however will need access to more services and will need to be registered to Google.  If you use GMail that ID is already registered, if not you can register your own email account.

To register your email address to Google accounts go here https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount fillin your full email address then a password and follow the rest of the instructions.

Your email account and its password are secured by Google.  After you've registered, I can invite you to various services and you will get an email, you'll click the verification link and login with your email address and password.  Since most services are Google Apps, this one registration will allow you to access the variety of services.

Each service (Blogger,etc) has a display name that you can choose so that when you use that service that name will be used.  It can be your first name or a pseudonym.  When you are invited to join a service (Blogger, etc) you will have an opportunity to update that display name.

Links

The main site has a Links page.

Take a look at the categories, do we need more, are there better names?

• Animal Rights - sound to far out there?  Animal Welfare?
• DVA
• Laws
• Media
• Non-Lethal
• Other Fights - ok?
• Solon
• Uncat

Google Petition

An example of Google Forms is used at Broadview Hts.

http://sites.google.com/site/broadviewdeer/petition

Stay tuned to this site and I'll put up a prototype.  They had just one big free form field which isn't conducive to processing it...  In the mean time comment here at  http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/petitioningsurveying.html

I verified they are indeed using embedded Goggle Docs Forms.

Our form will collect the following fields

1. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Address
4. email
5. maybe phone #
   
6. Yard Sign (check box)
   
7. Help us (check box)
   

By collecting separate fields we can sort by name and match voter registration, sort by street for petition canvassing, filter by check boxes for Yard Sign and Help us, etc...

You can see from their site that calling it a petition caused confusion, so we'll avoid that problem.  We'll also have some language to assure them of privacy and that we won't spam them.

Posted 2/27/11

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To see what it looks like, see below, try it out...
To see what it would look like on the main site, click here.

Good News - this works on both the main site and the blog.  It can be used for building a supporter database or taking a survey (has multiple choice ability).  Information captured in a spreadsheet that the visitor doesn't see.

Bad News - Doesn't allow formatting the form (ala MS Access Form Designer)
Doesn't automatically collect email addresses

Should we make email req'd?
Should we ask phone number?

Need introduction/instruction text
Introduction must address privacy/spam concerns
Can have help tip with each question

There are some technical problems with this Google facility, I have done some coding and think I have a work around...  This link is using Google, this link is my work around...

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Yard Signs Method

Timing of order, and placing signs

Second big web launch exposing web site to large audience
xx

How many in initial order/increments

100

www.yardsignwholesale.com
This is the website for the signs. Last year Broaadview and Ottawa ordered 100 signs for $320 and they do overnight them and the wire stands are included in the price (but ordered separately).

Placement

15 ft setback from Right of Way (past sidewalk), height limit of 4 ft, size limit of 6 sq ft.

Help

Enlist Stan

Yard Sign Restrictions

Solon has restrictions on yard signs that need to be considered.

Yard Signs

Exactly what should they say...

No Hunting (by hunting we mean all forms of killing, see post)
in our
Neighborhood (in our city? in Solon?  that would make it one less line)

SolonDeer.com (no http://, no need for www. )


Have room for a (bumper) sticker saying NO on xxx where xxx is issue number assigned by Board of Elections (BOE).


Reuse sign by putting a (bumper) sticker over the web site with a new address?

Who are we?

Make it clear on all sites who we are and how we feel...

Taglines used at top of ALL sites, Main Site, Blog, Comments...

Petitioning/Surveying

ROUGH DRAFT...


There are four distinct items that have been called "Petition/Survey"...

1. Build a supporter database
   collect email addr, yard sign, help us?
   See Google Partition Post for details
2. Survey people's opinions
   How do they feel about various issues
   
3. Flood City Hall with opinions
   Like MetroPark, flood city hall
   
4. Ballot Initiative
   Formal process, rules on who can and how we collect signatures

Some examples:

Village Deer - https://sites.google.com/site/villagedeer/petition

Broadview Hts - http://sites.google.com/site/broadviewdeer/petition

Cayuga see box top left - http://www.cayugadeer.org/

Metro Parks -

Ohio Dem - http://ohiodems.org/we_are_ohio_rally_rsvp/

Like some of their verbiage like click here to rsvp

We would like to extend an invitation supporters like you

Deer Hunting Accidents

Received an email with 10 pages of Hunting Accidents...

I have copied it into a Word Document, will clean up formating than store document on ScribD so it can be embedded into a post.

Will need to write some summary text around it...

New Label Safety?  YES! Ambiguous? Meaning Safety of people not DVA?

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Deer Hunting Accidents

Hunting isn't safe, never has been, never will be.  From Vice President Chaney's famous hunting accident to the startling statistics -- According to the International Hunter Education Ass. approximately 1,000 people in the US and Candada are accidentally shot by hunters every year and just under a hundred of those accidents are fatalities.

-- added Lane's 1st comment

Below is just a sampling of major headlines of serious hunting accidents. It makes no sense to do something unsafe in the name of safety. Using modern DVA deterrents addresses the real safety issue without endangering the public by use of lethal weapons.

-- embed document

Let's be safe, use DVA Deterrents, not deadly weapons.

Letters, Editorials, Comments

I have a new blog named solondeernews.blogspot.com that is mentioned on the main site and article site.  If you have any items for that blog, you can post them here as new topics, labeled as NewsBlog and I'll move them to the public view and Label the item as VerArchive.  If the info isn't ready to post yet and you want to collect input then Label it VerRough or VerFirst (as well as NewsBlog).

If you don't have posting ability, then comment to this post or contact the site administrator for help.

Coexistence Pics

This is a real warm fuzzy. Do you think we might put these photos on our site or maybe just one subtitled

THUMPER AND BAMBI

IF THEY CAN DO IT WHY CAN'T WE?

A group of photos showing a rabbit and deer getting along...

[NOTE] Can convert to PDF and embed into Blog post...

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Another sequence of a very young fawn and a horse.

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Write some text on coexistence between wildlife and humans...
IF they can do it why can't we

Pics

These deer are all dead now thanks to the metropark death squad. These pics were sent to me by a friend and we can use them. Do you like any of these for our site?  Lets not say they were metro deer but neighborhood deer which they are, err were. People like visuals.

Now loaded to default Blog Picasa Album...

[Note] Find a good location for photos, no copyright issues.  Can use individually and/or can write a post describing situation and tag photos into it...


[Note] Setup Google Picasa photo galleries


[Note] Check for Blog widget to do a slideshow of deer on blog sidebar.

Editorial Cartoons

What about the deer who are just visitng relatives or stopped by for a bite to eat? Maybe they need to wear bumper stickers like "Don't shoot me I'm from Bedford".This is getting more and more ludicrous.

Hilarious! Kidding aside does Ron Hill still do cartoons for the Sun paper? We should put this on our site. Get a photo of a deer with a bubble over his head saying this.
I'm 200% serious. People will read/look at a cartoon. Good to make people laugh.

Perfect way to drive our point home and people WILL remember that. They'll even say to friends and family, hey did you see that cartoon...............

John, please can you do that?

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[Note] Could put them on Comments web site, hilight on main site?

Deer Parks

http://www.cleveland.com/sunstarcourier/index.ssf/2011/03/new_idea_for_controlling_deer.html

Muskegon says 'no'

From: Defenders of Urban Wildlife <defendurbanwildlife@gmail.com>
Subject: Muskegon says 'no' to controlled deer hunt

Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 4:10 PM

Thanks for your letters to our neighbors to the north! Link below:

http://www.mlive.com/news/chronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-17/1247739323143980.xml&coll=8

ODOW Deer Counts

From 8/10   What's in a number? Deer population totals not as important as 'what's in my backyard?' E-mail Story    |    Print Story    |    Comments    |    ShareThis   about 19 hours ago By ART HOLDEN Daily Record Outdoor Editor At the Farmer and Hunter Quality Deer Management Cooperative shortcourse two weeks ago at West Holmes High School, biologist Dr. Mike Tonkovich had offered some interesting insight in both his talk to the crowd, and his interview we me. Tonkovich, the chief wildlife manager for the Ohio Division of Wildlife, and the No. 1 man when it comes to suggesting and making new deer regulations, adamantly noted that his job of "putting the right number of deer on the land," comes just as much from his passion for the animal, as it does with his job of managing Ohio's deer population. One of the points I found most interesting that Tonkovich made, was his reluctance to put a number on Ohio's deer herd. While he said that the media, and other organizations want a number to judge the whitetail population, Tonkovich says "the hunter wants to know how many deer are in his (hunting) area, not how many deer are in the state." "What's the statewide population mean," he asked. "I want to know what's in my backyard." They want lotsa deer in urban zones to sell more licences plus big trophy bucks live there and are semi-tame. Easy prey

Cayuga Action

This part is very important so we can involve the residents right now.


green from BTV

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

A positive resolution of this issue depends on individual people getting involved and taking action. I’d leave out the sentence and just leave it as “What You Can Do:”  OK

1)  Speak up--Contact your decision makers and let them know your questions and concerns.  Then list contacts and maybe a menu of things they can chose from to say. Has this been completed too? If not, I’d suggest to the reader that a contact can be as simple as stating your position, “I wanted to let you know,(councilperson,)that as your constituent, my position on this issue is (blank.). They don’t need to explain themselves or get into a verbal debate, just state their position.  And email is just fine for those that prefer it.  Remember, these people represent you.  They need to know what their residents think. DONE It has been my experience that you have to take people by the hand and tell them step by step what to do. [added link to Solon People, added detailed contact info on that page]  

2) Sign our online petition can you set this up easily? [I expect that it would be setup on change.org and just need a Link on the action page.]  Last discussion seems this will be a supporter database, see Petitions Label.  Will be put on Action Page. DONE  How clear do we need to make it that our online petition is not the same as the ballot initiative petition? This must be very clear, I don't think we can call it a petition in order to prevent confusion. Didn't call it a petition, called it Join Us. DONE

3) Write a letter to the editor and list links/addresses [added this item to Action page, linked to Solon Media page which has links to media with instructions for LTE]  DONE Should include email(obviously) and fax. I know one of the editors prefers fax, but can’t recall which. Check out Solon/Media page.

4) Help educate others Get your friends, neighbors and colleagues family, friends, and neighbors(?) – Colleagues are not very likely to live in Solon. Don’t know if should mention “neighbors. “ If you’re friendly with your neighbors, you’d consider them friends.  This one’s your call.  involved in the public dialogue about this important issue. Begin by letting them know about this web resource. You can do that quickly and easily by clicking on the Send-to-a-Friend button.  John can you set this up? [Need to research]   Added a widget to the blog to subscribe by email.

5) Attend City Meetings which are open to the public Your presence makes a big difference to the city and your representative.  DONE List schedules [See Below] DONE

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[Note] This material IS on the Action page, Solon/Media page and Solon/People page.

Cayuga Ideas

Can we please add some of this content from Cayuga Deer. Jenny said its ok. You decide where best to put this.

We encourage you to look beyond the assumption that there are just too many deer, and that killing some will solve people’s problems. Instead, consider that it is unresolved deer-human conflicts that make people so frustrated. Non-violent solutions exist to address these conflicts directly, allowing us to live in harmony with both our neighbors and our natural surroundings. These alternatives promise to be more effective, less costly, and less divisive than a killing program that largely ignores existing data and research.

And this

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. Solon finance committee has already allocated $150,000 for this years deer killing program.  The city has already spent $807,325.55 not including legal fees and as outside experts 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.

DONE

USDA WS 2

Here's what got cut off. George lives in Mt Lebanon PA and has had first hand experience with Wildlife Services and dealing with local gov and pro-kill scum

This recent comment by Kelly "goals not realized" meant that not enough deer had been killed, and that he wanted to bring the USDA back in to kill more deer.  This guy is a total scum bag.

Mt. Lebanon cancelled their annual culling contract with the USDA Wildlife Services for 3 basic reasons:


1) New elections got rid of some of the rabid deer haters that had a personal agenda to kill deer, and we got one friendly commissioner elected, and he was an alpha dog.  He shook up the status quo and started asking the USDA some tough questions.

2) Our group CNSA was putting constant pressure on the commissioners at the public meetings and in private meeting with the individual commissioners.

3) The municipality was running into serious budget issues, and it was difficult to spend 60K every year for killing deer.

USDA WS

The following is from George in Mt Lenanon PA. He isn't saying anything I don't already know. I am still concerned that Solon will put bow hunting back on the table along with sharpshooters to defray from the cost. I've seen it happen in town after town. Scott Peters must be so frustrated poor thing that Solon has not fallen in line.

Also. there are 2 letters from USDA WS to Solon from previous yrs requesting they be the hired guns. There is a second one I saw in the records last Tues. They want in. Remember if they aren't killing animals they aren't being paid.

From George:

USDA Wildlife Services didn't just join the national suburban deer killing business, they've been one of the major contractors of it for years.  I believe they've been the main culling contractor in the Philly parks system, i.e. Fairmont Park, and I believe they're killing the deer in Valley Forge National Park.

WS Safety

The following gem is from someone in our net who lives in Mt. Lebanon PA where Wildlife Sevices killed deer for one year around 4 yrs ago. George sent this info to the city commissioners.

   

Ellie, I think you should go to the next Solon council meeting and update the WS resume with the below info. Too bad we dodn't have this stuff last Tues!

[John's Note:]  Kraus confided that Ellie's WS bashing hurt our cause in his opinion.  Apparently the ugly truth isn't appreciated.

There's more stuff coming that we can add to the SWAT team guy's safety concerns starting with the bullet that shattered the back windshield of a womans car who was sitting at the red light at Liberty and SOM (for you guys that don't know- this is a busy intersection)  There was an active kill site on Liberty very close to the corner. It was hushed up, covered up and never even made it into the news. Godzich insisted it had nothing to do with Denicola. We have a copy of the very vague police report.

Sponsoring the use of lethal weapons, and applying for a special permit to override safety buffer zones, whether on public or private property, is reckless, unsafe, and an accident waiting to happen.  

SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness

Animal Rights Link

http://www.sharkonline.org/

Site seems to concentrate on other animal issues...

Here's a specific link  http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000428  LINK ADDED

Gardens

I believe this would be the time to let everyone know that she has contacted all of council and Drucker. 

Russo said he would pass her info on to the mayor. However the mayor was already included in the original contact hence I think its fair to say this was a blow off. 

This added to Sandy Baker post.

We should also post her very impressive bio and write about her 2 visits to the Cleve area and how they were lined up out the door at each venue. She was invited back by Angelo Pettiti. Eagle Creek Garden Center and Pepper Pike mayor plus a few other mayors paid to bring her back again where she presented at Daisy Hill Nursery and the Orange library to again packed rooms. 

The Ohio State Master Gardeners Extension cohosted her at the Seven Hills venue. Master Gardeners consult wirh Her. Everyone loves Sandy. She also does backyard consultations where neighbors are invited.

Activists ToolBox

Thanks to Lucy for pointing me to this site, I found this interesting item there...

Activist Toolbox

Save time and get going: download all the materials you'll need to start defending imperiled wildlife in your community.

Downloadable Resources

Thanks for being such a dedicated Defender. Below, you'll find all the materials you'll need to take the next step for wildlife in your community. 

Click here.

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PETA's Guide to Becoming an Activist

http://www.peta.org/action/activism-guide/default.aspx

IN THIS SECTION

• +Everyday Activism
• +Make a Difference in Five Minutes or Less!
• +Make a Difference in 15 Minutes!
• +Working With the Media
• +Public Speaking
• +Passing Animal Friendly Legislation

Truth with a Capital "T"

FIRST DRAFT-Click Read More
Lucy if you are OK with final draft, I'll add it out.

No matter your opinion re: deer "management" to control populations -- everything from total apathy/hunter-killer mentality all the way to the most strident animal rights activist -- you cannot argue with all the facts regarding this hot button issue.

Web Site Launch

We plan to launch launched our web presence to coincide with the Safety Mtg on Mar 9.

The SolonDeer Site will have to be in production status.

We'll want to gather and start building content for the SolonDeer Blog.

The design of the SolonDeer Blog needs some updates  is nearly complete.

Hopefully The SolonDeer Blog will be launched the same day.

The SolonDeerWork site will NOT be publicized (other than to those active in our group) I'd like to get people registered to Google Accounts and secure this site too, possibly immediately following the Mar 9th meeting.


UPDATE:

A new blog was built to contain letters to the editor, comments, emails to solondeer etc. Click here.

Hunting Defined

We talked about "NO HUNTING" as a slogan, but we mean "NO LETHAL" which doesn't have much of a ring to it.  Somewhere prominent on the main site, most likely the home page we'll need to define our goals and state clearly that our "NO HUNTING" slogan means

• No killing
• No sharpshooting 
• No captive bolt
• And especially "NO (lethal) DEER Management"
• As well as NO HUNTING

I think we can expect Solon to use the tag line "Comprehensive Deer Management" to hide the fact that they want to kill. They may even admit to "lethal and non-lethal", but if history (Strieter Lite) is any measure we can expect that anything "non-lethal" will be very half hearted.

Contact

How should the public contact us?

They can email us at solondeer.com, this will be automatically forwarded to the SolonDeer Google Group.  Interesting comments will be posted to the SolonDeerNews Blog .  See the post Label NewsBlog for these topics.  


Need to determine if we want to show the google group publicly.

People can comment on the public blog.  We'll want them to comment on an appropriate post so we should have a post to catch related comments.

The google sites doesn't have much in the way of a commenting facility, we will have to point them to the public blog.  Added a contact page to main site to inform them of comment ability. REMOVED

Public group email.  If we can get people to join a google group they can communicate with each other and us via that platform.  People first have to get an ID registered to google (their own email), select the frequency (immediate, daily digest, or web only) and then they can post issues for discussions.  Popular discussions that we find useful may be copied to the public comment blog.  People can submit things to the Google Group without having a Google Acct by sending email to SolonDeer at gmail.com which has proxy authority and will post their comment.

Should we have a phone #?

Should we have an address?

Internal discussions

[REWRITE]This is separate from internal discussions of strategy or draft documents being developed.

For this we have a private facilities that we will want to secure to our working members so city hall and other advocates for killing aren't tipped off.  These are a  google group email and the working blog.  A working site could also be setup if it is helpful.

Press Release / Inquiry

How should these items be handled?  

Some sites require a press inquiry before using the site.

Solon History

Need ideas for the Solon History page..

https://sites.google.com/site/solondeer/solon/history

For the near term please comment to this blog post...

Click more...

Myths & Facts

The Myth pages on other sites look very good, tailor for Solon...

Converted Myth page to FAQs, are all these items covered?

WHAT ARE THE SOLON MYTHS?  And our arguments?

• Myth 1 : DVAs are a safety problem that require our use lethal methods to thin the heard.See Culling Facts and Safety Ambiguity posts.
• Myth 2 : We tried Strieter Lites and saw no difference in DVAs.
  Deer become acclimated.  Study shows 10 year effectiveness.
• Myth 3 : Myth 3 USDA & ODNR/ODOW are the experts and they say that lethal methods must be used.
• Myth 4: If we don't thin the herd they'll starve.
  Need help here.
• Myth 5:  ???

See the site so far:  https://sites.google.com/site/solondeer/myths-facts

Web Services

Main Site - Highest level view for widest audience.

Articles (Public Blog) - Next level of detail for those interested in the cause.  This service has more ability to organize and find content.   (Add Search Widget)

News Blog - Selection of Letters to the Editor, comments, emails etc.  (Add Search Widget)

Work Blog (this site) - Private for working members only who will be actively reviewing and contributing content.  (Not Indexed, No Search Widget, can search from Dashboard).

ScribD - public document storage of PDFs

Home Page

HOME PAGE/INTRO 

(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.

Contraception Controversy

Deer contraception is a known non-lethal method, Ohio Administrative Code regulates its use in Ohio, has this been challenged, is there a way around it?

Looking for Heinz email on this...  Please resend...  Found it, updated main site here and blog here.

We could probably use an article showing the ODOW doesn't want contraception so they can sell hunting.

Affiliated Sites

Our Main Site Links page will list other affiliations, villagedeer, Broadview Hts, Hudson, Bedford Metro Parks, please comment here as you find these sites.

Solon

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Solon

• History - See separate post
• Laws - From original Deer Record Doc
• Media - Info on contacting media
• People

Label Web

News / Reference

Much of the News and Reference content could be hosted on the Companion Blog.  Some of the most critical issues could be put on the Main Site.

We need to gather some initial items for the Launch.???

Should these two pages be removed from the main site?  REMOVED

Is News Label on Blog good with monthly media links?

Should News be moved to Comments Blog?  MOVED NEWS AND RENAMED THE BLOG

Count Down

The Main Web Site (and possibly the companion Blog) will have a countdown to the next major event.  Currently the countdown is until the Safety Meeting / Web Site Launch, then it will be to next Council meeting or other important event.

Blog

The web site launch is quickly approaching, please concentrate on items REQUIRED for launch, filling in sparse page content or high priority content.  Site updates are an ongoing concern and will continue as issues develop.

Put general suggestions REQUIRED for LAUNCH that aren't covered else where in a WEBNOW post.

For Main Web Site suggestions see other WEBNOW post.

For items NOT needed for launch, comment to another post.

Web Site

The web site launch is quickly approaching, please concentrate on items REQUIRED for launch, filling in sparse page content or high priority content.  Site updates are an ongoing concern and will continue as issues develop.

Put general suggestions REQUIRED for LAUNCH that aren't covered else where in a WEBNOW post.

For Blog suggestions see other WEBNOW post.

For items NOT needed for launch, comment to another post.