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Copy public list?  There needs to be some correlation with the Article Site Blog labels, but this site will have more Labels to categorize issues that are not for the public.

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• Active - All issues being worked on, items needing discussion, strategy, but not really content destined for a public site (as ActiveArticle).
  Specifically excludes Labels - Ann, Help, Tech, and VerArchive
  Tag new posts with Active, when post content is complete, Active Label will be removed and VerArchive will be added
• ActiveArticle - All web content being worked on, as active, but items needing editing for publication.
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• UnCat - Uncategorized, use if you are uncertain how to categorize, I'll periodically review these labels and find an appropriate Label.

Content Categories

• DVA - Deer Vehicle Accidents
• Garden - Issues related to deer damage to gardens or understory
• Hunting - specifically related to bow hunting
• Lethal - general all lethal issues
• News - News accounts
• Non-Lethal
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Bow Hunting

Bow Hunting was proposed as part of the Deer Management Plan, this may seem attractive as a cheaper solution, but it has its share of problems.

Some issues are:

• Bowhunting is inhumane and wasteful.
• Bowhunters do not want to talk about the wounding issue and archery wounding is the most denied problem in bowhunting.
• Wounding and crippling losses are inevitable.
• Shot placement is, for all practical purposes, random due to the difficulty in shooting arrows accurately. There is absolutely no sure way to kill a deer instantly with a bow.
• More often than not, poorly hit deer are lost and not recovered.
• The main cause of infection in the wound is today’s multi-bladed Broadhead arrow
• Almost all abdominally shot deer die a slow death from peritonitis with the average time of death measured in agonizing days or weeks rather than in minutes or hours.
• The use of bowhunting as a method to control deer population densities is ineffective. Bowhunting is not a population control measure; it is a recreational pursuit.

Embed Bow hunting document here...

[Ed note] - After 3 repeated requests with no summary for posting, I finally read the document and wrote the summary and posting.

Bow Hunting

Well, at least one of them replied, albeit a polite but dismissive reply.  Eight pages of material and all he can say is that crossbows are much better nowadays than they were way back in the 90's.  No matter how many fancy gizmos you attach, it's still basically just a "spring and a string".  This convinces me that Mr. Stanek is going to push the hunting angle in his plan.  The motto will undoubtably be, "Look, what can it hurt?"

I've attached the two files I sent the City so you know which I'm talking about.  I was curious about Mr. Stanek's comments about the "primitive" weapons in the article, so I compared the projectile velocity of the compound bow in the document, around 300 feet per second, to the bolt velocity of one of Gander Mountain's most expensive crossbows.  The technologically superior crossbow of the 21st century had a bolt velocity of 340 FPS, only slightly faster.  Of course it did come in fancy cammo paint and a 3X scope in case you have trouble making out that deer at 20 to 30 yards.  Sorry, couldn't help the sarcasm.  The thing is, he completely missed, or ignored, the point of the report.

Heinz Knall

Wounded

Studies conducted by Fish and Game agencies across the country show that 50% of deer shot with an arrow run off to die long, drawn out agonizing deaths. Please read admissions from hunters themselves, regarding unretrieved deer:

http://www.rubsnscrapes.com/Articles/deer_shot_placement_anatomy.php

Bow Hunting

Excellant report
http://www.safebackyards.com/Report%20on%20Bowhunting.pdf

Need a summary, then will embed in post, and put an attribution to the site, assume no copyright issues.
Put Link on Links page.

The Hudson page seems to be copying from this...
https://sites.google.com/site/hudsonohiodeer/the-truth-about-bowhunting

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 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.

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

Hunting as Population Control

http://www.examiner.com/urban-wildlife-in-national/realities-of-hunting-as-a-population-control-why-so-many-deer

Please put this on our site. Can you put the title somewhere boldly, up front and center so it will serve as a teaser to entice people to READ MORE

Everyone needs to read this including us. People need to understand that these urban deer kills are merely a huge polical machine and has nothing to do with science, conservation or legitimate biology.

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

Politics & Wildlife (see below): ??

Although counterintuitive, the truth is hunting isn't much of a population control tool. There are a number of reasons why this is the case, the most significant being the fact that once a portion of a wildlife herd is removed, the remaining animals have more food to eat. This rather straightforward reality has some subtle implications.

ODNR

http://sites.google.com/site/broadviewdeer/why-the-odnr-self-finances-with-hunting

Copy? this page to public blog, give attribution.

Bow Hunting Rules

See attachments... The rules and the dvas

This came from http://solon.patch.com/articles/contentious-deer-culling-proposal-heads-for-solon-council-showdown

My comments on the Solon Rules. These will be revamped and presented in May, we'll see if they address these short comings.

Hunting

This entire "urban hunting zone" was orchestrated by the ODNR. It is part of their master plan. The hunters love hunting in the burbs for a few reasons. Big trophy bucks since they've never been hunted before. Easy targets since they're domesticated deer and convenience. The ODNR won't put any roadblocks up at all. This is all part of their hunter recruitment program since hunting is on the decline big time. For fun take a look at the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting website (CASH) There's a running tally of accidents and it looks like this year has been the higest. Also, According to the International Hunter Education Ass. approximately 1,000 people in the U.S. and Canada are accidentally shot by hunters every year and just under 100 of those accidents are fatalities.