A friend forwarded a recent news story from NPR on how some communities in Connecticut are handling deer over population. Among the highlights of the story is the fact that the deer population in the US has mushroomed from half million to over 17 million in just the past 20 years. The wildlife manager quoted […]
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Fort Thomas Political Update
Fresh off some big national headlines related to politics that includes the passage of a giant health care bill and the talk of mid-term elections perhaps it is time to start talking about some local politics and prepare for a plethora of yard signs like the ones above from a previous Virginia state race. There […]
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Another Area Deer Hunt
There was an article on Cincinnati.com today about the town of Mariemont becoming the latest Cincinnati area community to sponsor a deer hunt. In addition to the details of the hunt the article presented a pretty good synopsis of all area deer hunts. Here are some observations: 1. Other areas with proposed / past / […]
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Deer Hunting Update
At the council meeting on Monday a report was issued by Don Martin reviewing the recent deer hunt (article overview in the Enquirer). The report is published on the Fort Thomas city website but to save you some time I have provided some highlights below (with a little commentary). Some notes: 1. In 2006 there […]
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Big Crowd Tonight at Council
A large crowd showed up tonight at the City Council meeting. I would estimate the crowd to be about 100. After listening to about 40 minutes of commentary it was clear that about 90% of the crowd was against the current ordinance allowing deer hunting in the city. Of the 10% that were not there […]
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Lawsuit Filed to Stop Deer Hunting
Additional news has broken since my post yesterday. First there is word from Channel 5 that a lawsuit has now been filed to stop the deer hunt. I have attached a link to the article here. Additionally, those mentioned in my previous post continue to gain momentum in there efforts to overturn deer hunting in […]
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Opposition Mounts to Deer Hunting
I recently received an email from a friend who received an email from a concerned mother, Kathy Surrett. In this email, which she sent to many local news media outlets, she outlined some of her primary safety concerns: 1. There will be no minimum requirement on how large of a tract of land the owner […]