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Understand why bringing snipers or bow hunters into our neighborhoods to kill deer is UNSAFE    INEFFECTIVE AND UNNECESSARY.

After five years of a costly and ineffective culling program our elected officials are under pressure from a minority to continue their mistake.  Their plan squanders taxpayer's dollars and endangers people in our community with a poorly conceived and ineffective program.  Despite our history with this program, it is not well researched and it ignores long-term, science-driven and cost effective methods for resolving deer-human conflicts.  Worst of all, it puts everyone in our community at risk by using hunters with cross-bows and sharpshooters with high-powered rifles.

We have the means to prevent culling from going  forward again by putting the issue on the ballot in November.    Let's take this very important decision directly to the people to decide.  To this end and through the efforts of many people from a wide range of viewpoints, we have prepared an Initiative Petition in compliance with the Ohio Revised Code.  With XXXX signatures by June 30, Solon residents will have the opportunity to change the law here and prevent the mistake of culling from being a “management” option.  With your help we can heal the divisions created by this issue while keeping us safe and making Solon a community to be proud of.

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            TAKE ACTION!

 JOIN with fellow Solonites and realize the phenomenal power we possess by being involved in the Democratic process. Exercise your right to be counted.  You can help by signing this petition, circulating, or by placing a SIGN on your lawn. 

WHO WE ARE

Solon Deer is a group of concerned citizens from Solon neighborhoods who support safe, rational approaches to reducing deer-human conflicts. SolonDeer.com functions as a central point of information and public communication for those concerned with the Solon deer issue. We encourage you to become more informed and to get involved to generate the best outcome for all.  Please email us at solondeer@gmail.com.

Petition info is on Petition page, top of home page is WHY SHOULD I CARE, bottom is WHAT SHOULD I DO.  Who we are and former home page material is in About Us 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

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