Save Our Deer: Science Over Slaughter

We spoke in person at the Dec 18 Town Board meeting, with two online commentators afterwards. Start at 1:23:00.

The Poughkeepsie Town Board Meeting - Wednesday, December 18, 2024

At the Poughkeepsie Town Board meeting Dec 4. Go to 1:44:50 to hear three speakers discuss the coming killing with the Board.

The Poughkeepsie Town Board Meeting - Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Protesting the “EvoVisions” conference today led by Vassar Preserve Director Keri VanKamp. I’m guessing she didn’t bring up the vision of how hundreds of deer have been slaughtered under her command.

VASSAR INCREASES NUMBER OF KILLING TENTS

This photo submitted by Vassar to obtain last January's DEC permit shows that for the first time ever they now have three killing tents. Shown as orange dots, the new tent is labeled Site 2. Likely faces outward, and is also near the Our Lourdes School. More tents means more bait and more killing. Vassar has escalated their war on deer.

This was the first-ever Poughkeepsie Town Board meeting where Vassar's deer killing was put on the agenda instead of brought up at meeting's end with limited time. Go to 2:21:00 to watch the two presentations to the Board. Thanks to Bill Crain for an inspiring comment earlier at 1:59:00. And please contact your board member if you live in Poughkeepsie.

The Poughkeepsie Town Board Meeting - Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Visiting Vermont with my sister and brother-in-law!

HOW MANY DEER DID VASSAR SLAUGHTER THIS YEAR?
No one knows yet, because Vassar won't disclose it, so we wait months for the number obtained through Freedom of Information Law request.

The Miscellany News posted just one online comment to their article, despite several comments that were sent. But you can make comments here on their FB page. Click on The Miscellany News below, go to this January 26 article, and comment. Let's see if they delete them.

"Prior to Winter Break, the Poughkeepsie organization Save Our Deer (SOD) demonstrated on the corner of Raymond Avenue and Collegeview Avenue to call on the Vassar administration to suspend cullings, or mass killings, of deer at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. The cullings are part of a deer management program with the goal of maintaining biodiversity at the preserve by controlling the population of deer, according to the administration. SOD argues that the killings are cruel and lack a sound scientific basis."

Read Will Sorge’s “Save Our Deer continues anti-culling efforts” by clicking the link below.

📸 Allison Lowe/The Miscellany News.



https://miscellanynews.org/2024/01/24/news/save-our-deer-continues-anti-culling-efforts/

The NY-DEC published this today:

"Consequences of Feeding Deer in the Winter:
Now that white-tailed deer hunting seasons have ended throughout most of New York State, it may be tempting to begin feeding deer to “help” them through the winter. However, feeding deer during the winter or other times of the year is unnecessary, prohibited in New York, and can have very negative consequences for deer, your neighbors, and surrounding wildlife habitat.

If deer are provided with unnatural food sources such as corn or hay after this change in diet has occurred it can result in deer becoming ill or even their death."

Another piece if hypocrisy, as they don't mention that corn is typically used to bait deer in, as Vassar does. I guess if you're then going to kill them with high-powered rifles doesn't matter what they eat.

Vassar's student newspaper, The Miscellany News, just published this article. Hopefully will increase awareness and opposition to the deer slaughter. Please comment on their site!

Save Our Deer continues anti-culling efforts Prior to Winter Break, the Poughkeepsie organization Save Our Deer (SOD) demonstrated on the corner of Raymond Avenue and Collegeview Avenue to call on the Vassar administration to suspend cullings, or mass killings, of deer at the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. The cullings are part of a deer

The NY-DEC just rightly charged this sadistic hunter with baiting deer, which is illegal. They state:
"Hunting with the aid of bait is unlawful and unethical. It gives the hunter an unfair advantage by luring the targeted game to an unnatural food source. Additionally, multiple deer feeding out of the same bait pile can spread disease amongst the herd."

And yet they supply Vassar with two hunters who bait and shoot deer in the Preserve.

URGENT!

The tents are up and the killing may start within hours. This is sadistic, unwarranted, and all orchestrated by chic, progressive Vassar College.

CALL PRESIDENT BRADLEY @845-437-7200 AND PRESERVE MANAGER KERI VANCAMP @845-437-7414