Increased Hunting Hours Still Yield Higher Amount of Vehicle Crashes Photo credit: Heather Hall Fort Thomas began crafting ordinances to deal with the increasing deer population in 2007. Since then council members have come and gone, revisions and nuances of the ordinance have been enacted and countless hours of debate have occurred. Most recently in […]
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Pivotal Council Meeting Tonight Regarding the Future of Deer Hunt
Arrows could start flying through your neighborhood much earlier this year if council approves the additions to the hunting program, much sooner than in year’s past. Archery season started September 7th- January 20th. http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/1314huntposter.pdf The hunting will be allowed a half hour before sunrise until 10am. Also instead of the 3 acre regulatory hunting zone, […]
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Campbell Co. 4th in Kentucky Deer Strikes
The deer issue hasn’t been brought up in a while, so my interest was piqued when I saw the above chart put out by the Kentucky State Patrol. In it, it shows that Campbell County ranks fourth among all Kentucky counties in amount of incidents with deer caused vehicle collisions. The rolling undeveloped hills of […]
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Deer Hunt to End?
After not seeing many stories published at all from The Community Recorder over the past few weeks, I checked out my bookmark on The Fort Thomas Community Page on Cincinnati.com and saw a myriad of stories. Turns out the paper and its reporters are being furloughed, so they had to turn out double the amount […]
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More Perspectives on Deer Management
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 […]