$2900 to haul one deer to western Ks--then it dies anyway

What the PETA bleeding hearts do not understand is:
1. 75% of the deer hauled to a new location die from the shock of it.
2. Due to Mad Cow, aka Chronic Wasting Disease, which is in elk and deer in Colorado and now Western Kansas, the Ks. Department of Parks & Wildlife will not even ALLOW "relocation" of deer.
3. Making deer jerky via smoking the meat dries it but does not kill the Lyme spirochetes, so while it sounds loving to "donate the meat to the poor", what you would be doing is giving them syphilis. Not a loving act.
4. Dr. George Fox is head of KDPW and as he loves to say, "The state own all the deer in Kansas!" So whatever the Fox who is guarding the chickens and the deer says--well, he is GOD!


Here is Sullinger's Prime Buzz post June 11:

Cost is a factor in Shawnee Mission Park deer proposal
Park officials believe using sharpshooters and archers to solve Shawnee Mission Park’s deer population problem will be the quickest and most effective control method.

But they point out that it is also the most economical.

In a document call “Deer Management Options,” park officials point out the pros and cons of each lethal and non-lethal method.

(It is attached to this blog post as Attachment A)

Many people support relocating the deer somewhere else. But park officials point out that the cost would range from $400 to $2,900 per deer.

Thus, relocating approximately 200 deer would cost somewhere between $80,000 and a half a million dollars. Even with that option, from 20 to 80 percent of the deer would die in the process from stress. Also, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks currently prohibits relocation.

Repellants, the document states, wouldn’t reduce the deer herd, which everyone agrees is the goal.

Fertility control is considered expensive, costing from $200 to $1,000 per deer and could take several years to work.

Park officials also note in another document (attachment B) that deer/vehicle accidents near the park are on the rise. Data from the Kansas Department of Transportation reported 25 accidents last year compared to 21 in 2007 and 17 in 2006.

Lenexa police officials said those numbers may not tell the whole story. Deer accidents reported to the state are those with damage estimated of $1,000 or more or with injuries to people in the vehicle.

Unreported are those deer/vehicle accidents that don’t fall into those categories.

The deer “harvest” would be held sometime this fall. Deer season in Kansas begins in mid-September and run through January.

Feed would be set out and the deer would be shot when they come for the food.

Randy Knight, a park district spokesman, said the sharpshooters would work during the morning and only in certain locations where bait was set out. The park would be closed on those mornings and then reopened later in the day.

Park officials said the culling could be done a couple of mornings each week for several weeks. Knight said the park would remain open if archers were needed in the second phase. However, he said areas where they were working would be off-limits to the public.

Ken Payne of Olathe, president of Heartland Suburban Whitetail Management, said archers shoot from about 20 yards away and aim for the heart or lungs of the deer. He said most die within second of being hit. Those who don’t are tracked down until they are found.

“We go to extreme measures to find everything we shoot,” he said, adding that bow hunting is used extensively throughout the nation to cull deer populations.

Park officials hope to use non-lethal methods to keep the deer population from becoming too large in future years.

Whatever future control method is adopted will be used throughout the county park system, park officials said.

The park board will consider the deer management recommendation at 7 p.m. next Wednesday at the Lenexa National Guard Armory, 18200 W. 87th Street Parkway.

A copy of the staff’s recommendation is posted on the park district’s resource management page at www.jcprd.com.

The public is invited and will be allowed to address the board. Those who can’t attend can e-mail their comments to communityrelations@jocogov.org or mail them to JCPRD Board, 7900 Renner Road., Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66219. Comments should be sent no later than Monday.

To reach Jim Sullinger, call 816-234-7701 or send e-mail to jsullinger@kcstar.com.

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Submitted by Jim Sullinger on June 11, 2009 - 11:06am.