Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Halloween and Spiders, Young Hungry Deer and More Deer
Halloween and Spiders
More Deer

"The City has developed an integrated, non-lethal, site-specific management plan that will allow experts to take immediate steps to reduce future impacts of an over-abundant deer population. The four-pronged plan includes:
Sterilization Study: A three-year surgical sterilization study focused on male deer. Past studies of surgical sterilization have demonstrated a 10 to 30 percent decline in annual population. We propose focusing on males for this research project for several reasons. First, the procedure is simpler to perform and less invasive for the animal. Second, there are typically far fewer males than females in suburban populations. Third, males can be operated on year-round providing a broader implementation window. This is particularly important in an area as large as Staten Island. Finally, the island constricts immigration of males that typically are more transient in the landscape, thus making this approach more likely to succeed than in a more contiguous landscape.
Traffic Safety Measures to reduce deer-vehicle collisions including signage, education, and deer resistant plantings on roadways.
Extensive Public Education focusing on living safely with deer in an urban environment, including driver education to reduce deer-vehicle collisions, public health education to reduce the incidence of tick bites and tick-borne illnesses, and environmental education to discourage feeding and encourage the planting of deer resistant plants.
Natural Resource Protections include new fences around planted forest, tree guards on new trees, deer-resistant plantings and further protective measures."
Pages: 1 · 2
More Articles
- Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Focusing on Nature is a Way to Step Out of Daily Worries, Be Lifted by Its Beauty or Delightfully Surprised by An Unusual Encounter
- Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Mushroom Hunt; Grasshoppers Leap Into the Future (on glass!)
- Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Blond-Tailed Squirrels and a Box Turtle Surprise Again
- Ferida Wolff's BackYard: Maple Seeds in Abundance; We Are Birds of a Feather: Is Our Tree of Life Starting to Weaken? It’s a Short Step From Tree-worry to People-worry
- Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Homes and Residential Communities
- When Your Doctor Is Also A Lobbyist: Inside The War Over Surprise Medical Bills
- Stateline: How One School Is Tackling the Youth Vaping Epidemic
- Julia Sneden's Magic Moments at the End of Summer
- States Flubbed the Rollout of Their Health Insurance Exchanges. Now They’re Ready to Try Again
- Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Flowering Plum and Vincent Van Gogh