Attention Parents, PTA, Golfers, and Residents (and Non-Residents) who enjoy walking through our passive parks. An archery program, open to Municipal employees only, is to begin on December 26, 2014 through January 24, 2015 in Robb Hollow Park, Bird Park, McNeilly Park, and the Mt. Lebanon Municipal Golf Course. The golf course will remain OPEN.
A public protest is being organized with details to follow. For more information, email Anya at Anyalasko@gmail.com
Email exchange between Chief McDonough and a Mt. Lebanon resident:
Mr. McDonough,
A few quick questions if I may:
The golf course is open year round and I suspect that golfers will take any given day to hone in on their skills. Even a brisk day doesn’t stop some people. Will the golf course remain open or be shut down for the 26th thru the 24th?
Looking at the maps, a rather sizeable portion of Robb Hollow park is in Upper St Clair. Will the bow hunters be allowed track any deer in that portion of the park? If allowable and if a bow hunter does get hurt on the USC side of RH park, or god forbid a wounded deer runs across the street and causes an accident with a motorist, whose insurance covers any such accident?
Thank you sir,
A Mt. Lebanon resident
Update December 18, 2014 9:25 AM A comment cross posted:
If you witness a deer related hunting or trapping incident - media contacts
If you witness a wounded deer related hunting or trapping incident, and you have a cell phone, take pictures and/or video to document the incident, and call the news desks of the TV stations listed below to report the incident, and ask if they will send out a TV crew to film and report the incident. Also, call the Post-Gazette and The Almanac editors to report the incident, and ask if they will send out a reporter to report on the incident. If we want to stop this reckless and dangerous hunting program, and inhumane trapping program in our parks and neighborhoods, we need to document the incidents, and get the media to report the incidents.
WPXI
News Desk: 412-237-1100
Desk@WPXI.com
KDKA
News Desk: 412-575-2245
newsdesk@kdka.com
WTAE
News Desk: 412-244-4444
Send cell phone picture
ulocal@wtae.com
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Kim Leonard, Editor
kleonard@tribweb.com
Matthew Santoni, Reporter
412-259-3406 Cellular
msantoni@tribweb.com
The Post-Gazette (South)
Virginia Kopos Joe (Ginny) South Editor
412-263-1414
vkjoe@post-gazette.com
The Almanac
Katie Green, Editor
724-949-1190
kgreen@thealmanac.net
Update December 18, 2014 10:59 AM To encourage even more activity at the golf course:
A public protest is being organized with details to follow. For more information, email Anya at Anyalasko@gmail.com
Email exchange between Chief McDonough and a Mt. Lebanon resident:
From: Coleman McDonough [mailto:cmcdonough@mtlebanon.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:11 PM
To: Mt. Lebanon Resident
Subject: Re: ML deer docs
To: Mt. Lebanon Resident
Subject: Re: ML deer docs
The golf course will remain open but it will be posted to advise golfers and others that hunting activities may be taking place during the time frame you noted in your email.
PA Game Laws require: " . . . Any person who wounds any game or wildlife shall immediately make a reasonable effort to find and kill the game or wildlife." This requirement is irrespective of municipal boundaries.
In regard to insurance issues, the archers will be engaged in voluntary, lawful hunting activities. As such, insurance requirements are no different for these individuals than for hunters engaged in lawful hunting activities anywhere else in the Commonwealth.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:00 PM, a Mt. Lebanon resident wrote:
Mr. McDonough,
A few quick questions if I may:
The golf course is open year round and I suspect that golfers will take any given day to hone in on their skills. Even a brisk day doesn’t stop some people. Will the golf course remain open or be shut down for the 26th thru the 24th?
Looking at the maps, a rather sizeable portion of Robb Hollow park is in Upper St Clair. Will the bow hunters be allowed track any deer in that portion of the park? If allowable and if a bow hunter does get hurt on the USC side of RH park, or god forbid a wounded deer runs across the street and causes an accident with a motorist, whose insurance covers any such accident?
Thank you sir,
A Mt. Lebanon resident
Update December 18, 2014 9:25 AM A comment cross posted:
If you witness a deer related hunting or trapping incident - media contacts
If you witness a wounded deer related hunting or trapping incident, and you have a cell phone, take pictures and/or video to document the incident, and call the news desks of the TV stations listed below to report the incident, and ask if they will send out a TV crew to film and report the incident. Also, call the Post-Gazette and The Almanac editors to report the incident, and ask if they will send out a reporter to report on the incident. If we want to stop this reckless and dangerous hunting program, and inhumane trapping program in our parks and neighborhoods, we need to document the incidents, and get the media to report the incidents.
WPXI
News Desk: 412-237-1100
Desk@WPXI.com
KDKA
News Desk: 412-575-2245
newsdesk@kdka.com
WTAE
News Desk: 412-244-4444
Send cell phone picture
ulocal@wtae.com
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Kim Leonard, Editor
kleonard@tribweb.com
Matthew Santoni, Reporter
412-259-3406 Cellular
msantoni@tribweb.com
The Post-Gazette (South)
Virginia Kopos Joe (Ginny) South Editor
412-263-1414
vkjoe@post-gazette.com
The Almanac
Katie Green, Editor
724-949-1190
kgreen@thealmanac.net
Update December 18, 2014 10:59 AM To encourage even more activity at the golf course:
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