HomeMy WebLinkAboutS Elbert.PDFMorch L4, 20L: 405 Troy Rd, Ithoco N.Y. t4850,
To: Moyor ond Trustees, Coyugo Heights:
I write to osk thot you holt plons to "net ond_bolt" or in ony
woy to commit o moss sloughter of deer. T om 76 yeors old ond o
life long resident of this county, a graduote of Cornell with
three groduote degrees; my father wos on " oggre", closs of 1934.
I own ond live on 7t ocres of lond in Donby. Forty yeors CIgo we
had a smoll herd of deer rooming our woods, fields ond streoms;
we fenced o smoll plot of lond in the mi.dst of o fi.eld to keep
deer out of vegetobles. No problem; they certoinly grozed neorby,
ote opple "drops" from our hedgerow ond provided the constont
blessing of life beyond our species.
Since then our deer herd hos increosed to 3 distinct lorge
groups. They hove been pushed out of hobitot neorby, developed
extensively, beoring the ironic nome, " Deer Run". So colled
"Chose Ferrn " is no longer inhobited by the Chose fomily nor is
it o form. So, f, older qnd o bi.t creoky, moved ny garden closer
to my house ond born. Agoin I hove fenced it. My " fencer" is o
neighbor retired from Borg Worner; we found reosonobly priced
moteriols i.n Ithocq, his lobor fees were neighborly. Agoin, three
times the number of deer, still no leopinE over to eot my
vegetobles ond I grow enough for fomily, friends ond Looves ond
Fishes.
I don't grow tulips, but I do hove mony other cultivoted
flowers ond a weolth of wild flowers, birds, bees, and
butterfli.es. I urge you to reod the "reol", not the "reel" Bombj..
Felix Solten wos Felix Solzmonn, on Austrion Jewish writer,
theotre critic, and bon vivont i.n Vienno. He did hunt with
members of the then royol fomily. If you reod the novel, you'll
quickly note thot it is not opposed to humons hunting for qnimol
meots' Solten is worni.ng in lessons of the " 01d Prince" thot
hunters with no respect for life ore themselves not Gods.
Solten/Soltzmqnn, despite hovi.ng been mode o citi.zen of Vienno
ond given the City Key, borely escoped the Nozi Anschluss. He
died in Switzerlond during the Wor but fortunotely for our
children, Wolt Disney contocted him in exile ond the fomous film
wos mode.
My next-door neighbors, respecters of wild life, kill o deer
eoch yeor on my lond. They eot the "venison" ond potrol to keep
poochers off my lond. Finger Lokes Lond Trust helps too.
Happy to help your residents find reosonoble fencing moteriols
ond fencers.
Sincerely, Soroh Elbert
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