Non-Violent/Non-Lethal Strategies

A common misconceptions about non-lethal methods is that they could work only in conjunction with the lethal methods, but cannot replace them.  Lethal proponents argue that non-lethal methods can hold a deer population steady, but cannot reduce it, and therefore, the deer population has to be culled first, then stabilized by contraception.   Not so.  Contraception researcher Frank Verret wrote, "The vaccine has successfully reduced the number of deer on Fire Island in New York by 50 percent over seven years, and by 40 percent at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, over the past five years." /  An initially high deer population can be sustained by feeding if warranted, until it naturally declines to the desired density, then keep steady from then on by selective contraception.  Not a single deer needs to die in the process. 

Last but not least, there is the brand new deer relocation technology known as the Deer Auto-Conveyor (DAC), which can convey deer from Point A to Point Z, without direct manipulation of the deer, including capture, tranquilization and transportation, thus avoiding the stress-caused mortality rate of conventional relocation methods.