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From: Kate Supron
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 7:24 PM
To: Mary Mills
Subject: EIS public comment- FW: deer situation
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Sent: Tue 12/7/2010 8:40 AM
To: Kate Supron
Subject: deer situation
My name is Anne Serling. I live on Cedar Lane in thevillage of Lansing. I have attended
several of these meetings and each time, Ileave a little more disheartened.
I can only describe the initial proposal to bait andshoot deer in the village of Cayuga
Heights as sheer insanity. I shudder tothink of the consequences that such an act would
inflict on my neighbors andtheir children. I think too of the legal ramifications that
such an actioncould incur if, God forbid, a child or someone else were accidentally
killed.
Now you come forward with this next proposal--thisegregious plan to "net and bolt" these
creatures. I had to look away from thevideo of this and I wonder how ANY of you could even
stop for one moment toconsider such an atrocious act.
Mayor Supron has said in a recent newspaper articlethat 75% of the Village supported
killing the deer. Please tell us where that statisticcame from because I have talked to
people in Cayuga Heights. Not one, I repeatNOT ONE has ever been questioned as to their
feelings about these proposals.
Those in favor of killing the deer have said thatthey are violent. For the past twenty
five years I have run on Cayuga HeightsRoad almost every morning. In those 30,000 plus
miles I have, on severaloccasions, seen deer and they have seen me. I have never had cause
to befearful. I have never even been approached by these animals. To categorize themas
aggressive or violent is a misrepresentation. You're looking at the wronganimal.
I would implore this board to make the right decision.Use sterilization. Raise the fences.
Torture of any species is never the right answer.
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