All the wildlife biologists who the City consulted agreed that trapping and relocation deer is less humane than euthanasia. Survival rates of relocated deer are frequently low. 2 High mortality of relocated deer is due to their inability to cope with new environments, stress caused by their relocation, and activity of predators. The City Council will be ignoring the will of the people if it implements a deer depredation program. People will be shooting deer in our yards.
Safety is the highest priority.
Deer will be lethally removed from private property only with the permission of the property owner. The majority of shots taken will be under 25 yards distance and 50 yards will be the maximum distance shots will be taken. All shots will require a safe backdrop. Bullets used in the depredation program will have a lethal range over one mile. Dr. Anthony J. DeNicola is a Yale-educated wildlife biologist whose doctoral dissertation at Purdue University was on the use of contraceptives to control deer.