Toledo Blade
The village of Ottowa Hills, Ohio has taken steps to cull the present deer herd in the town. This is the next attempt by an Ohio community to attempt a cull. Both Perrysburg and Maumee failed in thyeri attempts.
Me? I like venison.
Ottawa Hills is the latest local community to confront the issue of what to do about hungry deer that invade neighborhoods, damage property, and pose potential safety hazards.
Officials in the 2.5-square-mile village are planning the area's first selective removal of deer since Perrysburg tried an experimental, controlled hunt in 1998 that became something of a public relations flop.
Back then, protesters honked horns to alert deer to hunters. Activists went to court.
When all was said and done, only two does were killed. Perrysburg fell short of its modest goal of six deer.
Rich Carr, now president of City Council in neighboring Maumee, said at a 2004 meeting that the 1998 hunt had turned into a "fiasco" for Perrysburg that Maumee didn't want to replicate. Maumee, like Perrysburg, has had trouble controlling its deer population, especially in and near Side Cut Metropark.
Ottawa Hills plans to spend $25,000 to $30,000 to have a nonprofit Connecticut company do the deer-killing.
The village of Ottowa Hills, Ohio has taken steps to cull the present deer herd in the town. This is the next attempt by an Ohio community to attempt a cull. Both Perrysburg and Maumee failed in thyeri attempts.
Me? I like venison.
Ottawa Hills is the latest local community to confront the issue of what to do about hungry deer that invade neighborhoods, damage property, and pose potential safety hazards.
Officials in the 2.5-square-mile village are planning the area's first selective removal of deer since Perrysburg tried an experimental, controlled hunt in 1998 that became something of a public relations flop.
Back then, protesters honked horns to alert deer to hunters. Activists went to court.
When all was said and done, only two does were killed. Perrysburg fell short of its modest goal of six deer.
Rich Carr, now president of City Council in neighboring Maumee, said at a 2004 meeting that the 1998 hunt had turned into a "fiasco" for Perrysburg that Maumee didn't want to replicate. Maumee, like Perrysburg, has had trouble controlling its deer population, especially in and near Side Cut Metropark.
Ottawa Hills plans to spend $25,000 to $30,000 to have a nonprofit Connecticut company do the deer-killing.
