The city is weighing future deer management options, including reducing the deer herd more than initially expected, but then sharpshooting only every other winter, instead of every winter.
This week, the City of Town and Country approved allocating $57,250 for this winter's deer management program, which includes sharpshooting by White Buffalo of up to 125 deer and the harvesting of the deer meat. (Read Previous Story: Winter Deer Management Plan Passed in Town and Country) Captain Gary Hoelzer, who researched and helped develop the city's deer management plan, said that number was determined by him and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). The city's current plan, which was approved in October, 2011, is to reduce the population of deer from 660 to 300, or 30 per square mile. Last winter, 288 deer were shot as part of this plan. This year, however, the city's deer versus car collisions did not decrease as expected…
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Other municipalities are already doing it, but now residents and aldermen are arguing over the possibility of bowhunting within Town and Country city limits.
On May 23, resident Traci Cardenas addressed the Town and Country Board of Aldermen with three pictures of deer with arrows piercing through their bodies. She is opposed to the possibility of these images becoming a reality for Town and Country, as city officials examine different deer control methods for 2011—one being bowhunters killing deer within city limits. "When deer are shot with an arrow, it's not always a quick death," Cardenas told the board. Others followed suit in opposition to the idea. "I have many friends who bowhunt, and they have all said to me, 'You just don't do this in a city,'" resident Barbara Ann Hughes told the aldermen. Alderman Fred Meyland-Smith, who chairs the city's deer task force, told Town and Country-…
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Lou Salamone
9:30 am on Tuesday, August 23, 2011
They have never considered bow hunting as an option serious enough to even meet and talk to a local group about their operation, and how it functions, this was just a resistance from the anti-hunting fanatics when Hoelzer's gutless report "mentioned" bow hunting as an option. Lou Salamone Suburban Bowhunters more ›