One approach to urban deer management, Michigan style.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbo...UAZBalNL98jkTUS12dvFu2HMWIcbx3n6ZAb43d9bOZhA8

ANN ARBOR, MI - Ann Arbor is making plans to kill up to 150 more deer in January during the city's fourth-annual deer cull.

Before that, the city plans to conduct another round of nonlethal sterilizations of female deer to surgically remove their ovaries, continuing a two-pronged approach to population control.

The sterilizations are expected to take place at the end of this month to avoid being done in the middle of winter again.

The City Council voted 8-2 Thursday night, Nov. 8, to approve more than $182,000 in continued spending on deer management, while extending a contract with White Buffalo Inc. through June 2020.

The city has contracted with White Buffalo for the past two years to carry out the annual wintertime shooting of deer mainly in city parks and nature areas, as well as ovariectomy procedures permitted by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Those deer have a people problem.

It’s been an absolute debacle in AA. Last year they sterilized the females in the dead of a brutal winter and naturally several ended up dying or later being shot by the sharpshooters. Then of course the residents held candlelight vigils for the poor dead deer. Why the state allows this to happen year after year is beyond me. I forget the actual number but they’re averaging close to $2k per deer killed or sterilized.

Ann Arbor is the Berkeley of the mid west. So crazy.

Don't forget Madison...