Welcome deer friends, Only a short time ago, anyone who said the town would stop shooting voluntarily and give up this year’s permit would have been told “that’s impossible.” However, the council’s actions in January 2012 were a reprieve for the deer, not a pardon. Unless we want the culling to start all over again next year, we need to educate ourselves
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Deer management plan approved for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore By Joyce Russell joyce.russell@nwi.com, (219) 762-1397, ext. 2222 PORTER | The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore will use both lethal and nonlethal methods to control white-tailed deer on its property. The National Park Service last week released the park’s final deer management plan outlining what methods will be used to control the
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We are pleased to report that our April 28 ’60′s Party Fun-Raiser at the Ogden Dunes Firehouse was an overwhelming success! Many of the standing-room-only crowd really out-did themselves in their ’60s garb, dancing the night away to the great musical stylings of our very own Donnie Argostino and his bandmates, The KLIKS. A heartfelt THANK YOU to all those
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For additional reference on this subject, we have compiled several articles within the tab above titled “Deer and Lyme Disease.” But we thought this one deserved its own post, for its concise, comprehensive, and fair interpretation of the expert scientific studies, as well as views from a wildlife management standpoint. The final section of the article includes some helpful
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The Ogden Dunes Town Council had an emergency meeting today at noon at which they took official action to suspend the town’s rights under the current DNR permit. As a result, all deer cull activities have been shut down for this year, and the DNR hearing scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled. A sincere thanks to the Town Council and
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While this article is from September 2010 and addresses Connecticut deer, it parallels the issues we are facing now in Ogden Dunes and explains why lethal, State-supported “Deer Management Policies” aren’t what they seem. Hunting has increased deer population, not reduced it It is very difficult to grasp the logic of the Fairfield County Municipal Deer Management Allinace working closely
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Ogden Dunes ends deer cull By Susan O’Leary Times Correspondent | Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:45 pm OGDEN DUNES | The Ogden Dunes Town Council voted unanimously to suspend the town’s divisive deer cull in its first meeting of 2012 Tuesday night. Council member Tom Clouser made a motion early in the meeting to suspend the cull until after a Jan. 24
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This letter was presented to our newly-elected Town Council at their first meeting last night. January 17, 2012 Dear Town Council Members: Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening here. First, every one of us who are against the cull are people who bought homes in this community. In fact, many of us bought homes
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An excerpt from, The Man Who Killed the Deer, a novel of Pueblo Indian Life, Frank Waters, Sage Books, 1942: There is no such thing as a simple thing. One drops a pebble into a pool, but the ripples travel far. One picks up a little stone in the mountains, one of the little stones called Lagrimas de Cristo and
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Town should consider residents’ concerns before using deer cull Before you decide whether you support the Ogden Dunes deer cull, answer this question, “Would you like the cull to happen in your backyard?” For example, Ogden Dunes is only 1 square mile, and that square mile contains about 700 homes. The cull is taking place in a park
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Deer Friends, As Americans, we are at a critical time in our history. Every day more and more of our rights are being lost to corporations and special interests. We can’t change things in Washington, but we can change things in town. And it’s grassroots organizations like ours that will eventually get Washington’s attention. The town of Ogden Dunes is
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