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DEER SLAUGHTERING GOOD? NO WAY! |
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by Kelsey Kellner and Anupama Pillbrow
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08 Nov 2004
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Bow huntiing is not appropiate to kill deer because of over population in Allerton. |
To the editor:
We are commenting on the deer slaughtering issue at Allerton Park. There are an estimated 383 deer and exactly 162 permits given out to the hunters per season. 24 hunters are allowed in Allerton Park per week. The population doubles about every five years. Let’s say that there was a limit (even though there actually is a limit on the number of hunters, but none for the amount of deer that they can take) and that each hunter took three deer, there would be 127 deer left. Should this happen? NO WAY! That is a tremendous decrease in deer.
A few good ideas for decreasing the population of deer without bow hunting, and possibly mutilating, deer would be creating a “force-out”, or tranquilizing and then moving the deer to a better location, such as an abandoned forest. With archery you must shoot in curtain places such as the neck; if you neglect to do this then the deer will become mutilated, and could die months later because of infection. Managing deer populations is a necessity, but surely we can do it in a more civilized manner. Deer do not deserve to suffer, and mutilation is not a humane solution. As Mark Straka stated in a previous letter to the editor, “Kids do not need to see a gut shot deer bleed out in the 4-H Camp!”
KELSEY KELLNER and ANUPAMA PILBROW
URBANA |
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