250 DEER TO BE KILLED

Since 2006 the Fairfield County Deer Management Alliance has managed to convince a number of Redding residents and the town Government warning that deer are overpopulating Redding with numbers of ( 60-100 ) per square mile and are the root cause of a coming Lyme disease epidemic.   More recently they were instrumental in convincing the CDC to fund ($900,000) for an integrated tick management Lyme disease study  ( ITM ) in Redding over the next 3 years. Part of that study is to kill (250) deer within Redding. Significantly, CT DPH shows Redding Lyme disease decreasing, and the DEEP data shows both deer population and hunter success decreasing. Why was Redding selected ?    The Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station ( CAES ) investigators employed the Extermination Company White Buffalo Inc. to kill the ( 250 ) deer @ $400 per deer.    The ITM study claims there are ( 30 ) deer per square mile in the two - one square mile test sites for 2013. Private and hunter surveys would put that number closer to ( 14 ) deer per square mile which calculate that Redding has a deer population of approximately ( 450 ) year end 2013 and if allowed the removal of ( 250 ) deer from the current Redding population number what is left ??       In February 2013 White Buffalo Inc. killed (51) deer at night, over baited areas. All this was done without any public notification to the residents. White Buffalo Inc. is scheduled to shoot another (75) deer of the remaining (199) allowed under the current ITM study in February 2014 and again in 2015. If continued removal of (199) from the Redding deer population is allowed - what is left ??            To voice your concern: Contact CT DEEP   1-860-424-3011