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HEALTH RISKS:
-CWD (Chronic Wasting Diseose)
Only 2 reported "q."r .r in Ny, losl
-Feces
An employee from Tompkins County He
becoming sick due to contEc{ with jeer
cqse wos in 2005
Deportment soid their ore no known inslronces of o humqn
Institufe of Ecosystem Studies, os well or
hove both refuted the DElS,s {Droft
DRIVING DANGER
As of 2008 (the lost dsfo I hove| the numl
There is o $frietenlite system inrtollo?ion in
to the Owego frtrfffc engineer, tfre
opprooch. RADS uses rodio sensors to
too neor o rood, lhe sensor ocfivolres o
One study in Switzerlcnd found thot such
of up to 82 percent.
The cost of instolling this sysfrem moy olso reduced by foderol gront suppori.
Anolher promising technology, fhe
-Lyme Disecse
The Tompkins County Lyme Diseose inl
deer do not couse Lyme Diseose. The
fick, ond the whifetqiled deer is iust one
supporf deer culling os o method of red
rote is olmosl9x lower thon Ny's overoge. On top of this,
corrier is lhe mouse. There ore 2T known corriers of rhe
fhem. The Americon Lyme Disecse Foundotion does not
Lyme Diseose. Dr. Richord Ostfeld, phD of the Cory
r Aurerbuch, PhD, of Horvord School of public Heolt'h
lmpcct! stotements that deer cause Lyme Diseose.
of collisions with deer declined by olmost holf.
go, New Y"rk, ryt 3O miles South of lthocq. dccording
deer-vehicle collisbns has been high, necrly IOO%.10 -
Animal Detection System {RADS}, tokes s differenf
lorge qnimols opprooching o roodwoy. lf on onimol gets
signcl, olerting drivers to be coutious ond slow doin.
ldetection systems produced o reduction in collisions
,lAudubon Society do nof know of ony bird species
deer.
nts, solomonders, ond other creofures in woys we
Greenwold)
reduoion. More food due io hss moulhs io feed con
EFFECT ON WILDLIF + BIODIVERSITY:
Recent studies ot OSU (Ohio Strote hove found thof rhe culling of deer is defrimentol ro rhe
The Cornell lab of Ornithology ond the Nor
being odversely offected by tlt. presence of
environment ond con "coscode into offeding
con't even imogine. (-OSU reseorcher Kother
Killing deer does not necessorily result in
increose fertilif. this is known o" Comprn Rebound.
Veolh culls ore fhen required.
Studies ot Yole hcve found thot deer
AGRESSION:
"White,toiled deer ore nof inherenrly
Mr. Hermonson on why
-Aufo-Deer Accidents
-Zoonotic Diseose
-rdggression
is not o leoding foclor in plont loss/dectine.
onimols." -Bloomington, Indiono Deer Tosk Force
should kill deer: