The 2017-2018 Archery Report has been published on the municipal website. http://www.mtlebanon.org/DocumentCenter/View/15939
Poor Tony. They lost some good customers because they moved away and the new owners don't think there is a deer problem.
It has been hard to convince the new landowners to participate given, from their perspective, they do not have a deer problem with reduce deer numbers in their neighborhoods.
They will try to get them to change their minds for next year. Yes. Next. Year.
Given the favorable results for three consecutive years of the archery program, we recommend that the municipality continue to include this program as part of the overall deer management strategy.
White Buffalo Public Property Harvest Summary
Poor Tony. They lost some good customers because they moved away and the new owners don't think there is a deer problem.
It has been hard to convince the new landowners to participate given, from their perspective, they do not have a deer problem with reduce deer numbers in their neighborhoods.
They will try to get them to change their minds for next year. Yes. Next. Year.
Given the favorable results for three consecutive years of the archery program, we recommend that the municipality continue to include this program as part of the overall deer management strategy.
We paid Tony $9000 to manage the volunteer archers this past year. Archery season ran from the middle of September to the end of January, with a short break between Thanksgiving and Christmas and all they killed were twenty five deer. That comes to $360 per deer. Twenty five hunters. Twenty five deer killed.
Here is the breakdown:
Here is the breakdown:
Total Deer Harvest: 25
White Buffalo Hunters – 25
Hunter Cooperative – No data
Antlered – 1
Antlerless – 24 (1 male, 23 female) Total
Female Harvest – 23
Total Male Harvest – 2 %
Female Harvest – 92%
Public Property Harvest – 18
Private Property Harvest – 7
White Buffalo Public Property Harvest Summary
Conservation District – 0
McNeilly Park – 4
Municipal Golf Course – 10
Public Works/Robb Hollow – 4
Twin Hills – 0
Eight deer were donated to Hunters Sharing the Harvest. That doesn't sound like much sharing to me.
Eight deer were donated to Hunters Sharing the Harvest. That doesn't sound like much sharing to me.
Our commission majority voted to pay DeNicola $77,110.11 without knowing the results of the archery hunt.