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.

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

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.