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In 2004 and 2005, the small city of Solon, Ohio, population 23,000, spent $520,000 to kill 1,000 white-tailed deer. In 2006, deer were shot in Solon again. When a deer population is severely culled, the Compensatory Rebound Effect kicks in and raises the reproductive rate by up to 30%. Anthony DeNicola, the professional culler who has the culling market all but monopolized, himself wrote that culling is far from being the best method to address the deer over-population and deer-vehicle accident problems. At an average of $100,000 per year in culling deer year after year in a city like Solon, over 25 years it will have spent $2.5 million in killing deer, and all this to lower the DVA rate by about 25%. 25 years is the life expectancy of good quality fencing, which can reduce the DVA rate by over 90%, with minimal maintenance. In Millburn, New Jersey, the notorious Captive-Bolt is employed, also administered by DeNicola. In more fiscally astute places, bow-hunters are used to shoot deer inside city limits. The average wounding rate of bow-hunting is higher than 50%. During the bow-hunting season, arrow-wounded deer stagger and stumble in the backwoods, for days, weeks, even months. As for hunting being an anti-DVA measure, it is telling that the highest daily rate of DVA occurs almost always on the opening day of the deer-hunting season, and the two deer-hunting months of November and December rack up over 50% of the DVAs. |
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