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• DVA - Deer Vehicle Accidents
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Bentleyville Hunting...

Middleburg Hts hunting

Bentleyville City Details Wiki

PD Search

Bowhunting gets high marks in nearby villages

Bowhunting takes 32 deer in Bentleyville

Bentleyville residents seek to stop deer hunting

Bentleyville Village Council OKs changes in deer-hunting regulations

Debate renews over deer population after doe attacks dogs and collisions with cars continue in Bentleyville

Safe Shot? Revised Deer-Culling Law Allows Residents to Hunt

Bentleyville may alter wording in deer hunting law

Chagrin Solon Sun Editorial: Don't impose hunting ban

Coverage leaves out key points--Chagrin Solon Sun Letter to the Editor

Chagrin Solon Sun Editorial: Solon needs better deer-culling plan

Hunt Deer In Ohio

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.

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? 

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.

Letters to the Editor

Should we have a place for letters to the editor? As I am sifting thru old newspaper clippings I'm finding some terrific LTE from angry Solonites expressing their outrage at the continued carnage and waste of $. There are also some good Ron Hill cartoons.

And what about the most recent Letters to the Editor...

YES, I saw that at one of the other sites.  I'd say we probably have enough material for a separate page from the News Page. We can expect a lot of these.  I've setup a separate blog - SolonDeerNews.

Comment or update this post with links...  Gather scans and we'll put them in a document repository ScribD or Google Docs.

Management by Death

I assume you all saw the article in the PD on 2/17 regarding the DNR's "maintenance" of bird populations through killing - the most recent victim to be barred owls.  1,500 barred owls are in the gun sights in Northern California.  The article also mentions ODNR's efforts to eliminate double crested cormorants.  My God, can't these knuckleheads find another way to spend their time???

http://www.cleveland.com/neobirding/index.ssf/2011/02/killing_some_birds_to_save_oth.html

Old News

Looking thu old articles I came across something interesting in the Solon Sun-May 12, 2005

Solon may have to consider allwoing hunting in the city to help control the deer population, Mr. Greer (ODNR) said. In Geauga and Portage counties the population is controlled with hunting permits in the unincorporated  areas. "It's a program I think the city will go forward with in some respect in the future to thin the herd," said David Hromco, Solon's assistant public works director.

 

Point being that bringing in sharpshooters was just a foot in the door and the Solon admin were and are just shills for the ODNR. More backroom deals. I have other similar statements to back this up. Solon residents need to know that this is NOT about controlling populations and that hunting does the complete opposite to achieve the supposed goal of "thinning" the herd. This information needs to be on our website.

 

As Hrmoco's statement above shows the city knew it was eventually going to allow bow hunting. And of course now that they're rid of Godzich...

 

We will need to find people willing to gather signatures. I'm doing everything I can right now to get the initiative under way but the first step is getting the website done.

 

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.

Sun News

I have reread the article about bow hunting in the Chagrin Solon Sun (Thurs., Jan. 13, 2011), and several statements in that article seriously bring into question the wisdom of, and reasons for, allowing bow hunting in Solon.

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