Woman still wanting to cancel hunt allowed more web space..

SpurHunter · Sep 27, 2011

Does the Chattanoogan have an anti-hunting agenda? Why would the same opinion, by the same author be allowed two separate entries a week apart?

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_210007.asp

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_209614.asp

What a shame they allow this crap tp go on. Time to flodd the Chattanoogan with replys to this lunatic.

GAfisherman · Sep 27, 2011

It gives her email. Everyone needs to email her and question her knowledge of conservation. Sounds like she has no clue on healthy managmeent of deer.

rsimms · Sep 27, 2011

CC her as you wish, but the cause would be better served by folks willing to respond, by name, to the Chattanoogan.com Opinion page.

Don't attack the Chattanoogan for publishing someone's opinion... even if you do think they are biased. It is more important for the general, non-hunting public to read and see alternative viewpoints.

Don't attack the woman personally... argue against her ideas, not against her.

Use rational and unemotional facts or opinions...

Below is the e-mail I sent to my County Commissioner last week. He responded, "I agree and wholeheartedly support you in this matter."

However even if they agree, politicians need widespread, vocal public support which will allow them to hold fast in the face of what could be daunting public opposition.

MY E-MAIL TO COMMISSIONER LARRY HENRY:
Regarding the presentation made to the Commission asking that you halt all deer hunting on the Enterprise South Park... I would respectfully ask that hunting be continued on the area as it has, in cooperation with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

This public land should be maintained and managed for all citizens. With respect to those who may personally be opposed to hunting, providing a mere four days for hunters to utilize the area (out of 365 days) is not too much to ask.

Of course it is extremely limited usage based upon the guidelines of TWRA's quota hunt system... providing for the safety and biological concerns on the area.

FYI, I have applied for the quota hunts on the area every year since 1984. I have yet to be successful in that lottery style drawing. It is clear that there is great demand for the limited hunting opportunity on the area, and I pray you and other Commissioners will allow it to continue as it has for decades.

buzz · Sep 27, 2011

Whats her e-mail? I want to think her so much.She was right about those deer being almost tame. The other day..I was hunting there...and sure enough...holding out my left hand (smeared with Peter Pan P-Nut butter)...that little buck begin to lick my hand. Of coarse him not knowing, in my right hand...was the hammer. WHACK. No lost arrow..easy drag. Thanks Mrs. Attorney. emoLaugh

Kidding of coarse!

rsimms · Sep 28, 2011

If you have not read the response letter written by Wilson von Kessler, in support of sportsmen and continued hunting efforts at Enterprise South, you should.

I tracked Mr. von Kessler down, called him and told him what an outstanding response he penned.

If you haven't, it's worth reading.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_210007.asp

churly · Sep 28, 2011

Awsome! Germans love to hunt, but over there only the super wealthy can afford to hunt. Everyone needs to email their commisoner as Richard did.

SpurHunter · Sep 28, 2011

Outstanding reponse from that gentleman! Apperantly I have been banned from the Chattanoogan opinion page.

They wont post anything I send, or reply to an email asking why.
emoBooHoo

SpurHunter · Sep 29, 2011

IN case you have not seen it, THIS was on the front page of the paper today. Unreal.... Group opposes population control hunts at Enterprise South park

 <div class="Section1">By Ansley Haman

Thursday, September 29, 2011

A fawn and doe wander along the southern boundary of Enterprise South Nature Park. Officials are planning to allow a regulated number of hunters access to the park during two weekends in October to hunt deer and turkey to comply with a contract the park signed with TWRA.

Photo by Dan Henry.



 <h3>BY THE NUMBERS

</h3>Deer harvested in quota hunts held in what is now Enterprise South Nature Park

2004: 29

2005: 78

2006: 56

2007: 45

2008-09: No hunts, administrative decision resulting from Volkswagen's arrival

2010: 51

Source: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

Some Hamilton County residents don't want to see hunter orange in their green park.

Controlled archery hunts designed to reduce deer overpopulation on 2,800 acres in what's now the Enterprise South industrial park aren't new. But the land's use as a nature park is.

Some of the park's users began voicing opposition when the county's website warned of closings on Oct. 10-11 and Oct. 24-25 for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency hunts.

Opponents plan to appear today before the Hamilton County Commission at a 9:30 a.m. meeting, said Diane Dixon, a lawyer who represents what she describes as a loose coalition of about a dozen residents.

"This is just an inevitable conflict of interests between different users of the park," Dixon said. "The last time there was a hunt in there, the park wasn't even open to the public."

Hunts began on the property in 1978 after officials from the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant -- a TNT-manufacturing facility that sat on the Enterprise South land from 1942 until 1977 -- asked for help controlling deer overpopulation on its 6,000-plus acres, said Ben Layton, a game biologist for TWRA.

Now part of that acreage, formerly controlled by the U.S. Army, comprises Enterprise South while 2,800 acres remain a nature park. The county, city and TWRA entered into an agreement for TWRA to manage wildlife on the land in 2005. The nature park opened late last year.

Preservation and overpopulation

The park should be a nature preserve, Dixon told county commissioners last week.

Signs in the nature park warn drivers to stop for wildlife, and Dixon told commissioners that those led her to infer that the county wanted to keep the wildlife from being killed.

But Layton said that keeping the park's ecosystem in balance requires managing wildlife populations. Too many deer can damage native plants and stop the regeneration of certain types of trees by eating saplings.

Layton said a major concern when the city and county entered into the agreement was deer running into the road and striking cars, Layton said.

"There were a lot of deer strikes on Hickory Valley Road," which runs through the western side of the property, he said. "Hamilton County became concerned about controlling the deer herd there."

Each two-day hunt has a maximum of 80 hunters, Layton said. Hunters may kill up to two deer, but the first kill must be a female.

"In order to get an opportunity to kill a good antlered buck, they have to kill a doe first," he said.

Hunters also are allowed one turkey.

"There is abundant turkey population down there," he said. "We had several hunters complaining that they couldn't harvest a deer because they were surrounded by turkeys."

Commission Chairman Larry Henry, a sometime hunter, sees no problem with the TWRA population controls.

"From an ecological standpoint, the population in there, it's got to be controlled," he said. "You've got an option; you can either have a hunt in there to control them or you can have them trapped and moved."

The latter option is expensive, Henry said.

Sportsmanship and aftermath

Opponents of the hunts also question the sportsmanship of killing deer inside the fenced area, Dixon told commissioners. As of Wednesday, she said conversations with TWRA had lessened her concerns.

TWRA's Layton says deer can jump the fence and that there are gaps and holes throughout it.

"If you had a fenced-in area that's like 40 acres or so, I would say there's a fair-chase issue there," Layton said.

The hunts are limited to bows and arrows, increasing the difficulty, he said.

Another of Dixon's concerns is that residents will find wounded deer and blood and entrails left from field dressing.

Layton said that's unlikely unless a hunter cannot recover the deer. And because the hunts are held early in the week, coyotes and other scavengers should take care of any remains by the time weekend parkgoers arrive, he said.

More than 90 percent of hunters eat the deer they kill or share it with someone who will, he said.

Dixon said she's been reassured after talking to county officials and TWRA.

"My clients do not have an extreme anti-hunting position or anything like that," Dixon said. "It is more offensive to the sensibilities of park users that these animals are going to be killed because they have such personal contact with them -- it seems more like a violation of the tranquillity."

Henry said he hasn't heard too much opposition to the hunts and doesn't plan to take any action on the matter in today's meeting.



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churly · Sep 29, 2011

Sounds good!

basser#9 · Sep 29, 2011

sounds as some of this is starting to soak into her thick head! emoQuestion

buzz · Sep 29, 2011

Depending on the kill rate, could be a lot of gut piles. And yes the coyotes will eat good. I just hope the successful hunters get off the beaten path to field dress them. DON'T need the ugly publicity....if you know what I mean!

Kirk · Sep 29, 2011

A man I work with had a collision with an Enterprise South deer a few weeks ago. He was traveling to work and the deer ran in front of him and he hit it. When he reported to it his insurance company he was told he wasn't alone, many deer have been struck by cars in that area. Does this same lawyer want to ban cars around Enterprise South?

Burnbeard · Sep 30, 2011

See? someone should tell Ms. Dixon those dear signs are to keep your vehicles and families safe from collisions.

Kirk - 9/29/2011 10:49 PM

A man I work with had a collision with an Enterprise South deer a few weeks ago. He was traveling to work and the deer ran in front of him and he hit it. When he reported to it his insurance company he was told he wasn't alone, many deer have been struck by cars in that area. Does this same lawyer want to ban cars around Enterprise South?

M GO BLUE · Oct 2, 2011

Burnbeard - 9/30/2011 12:39 PM

See? someone should tell Ms. Dixon those dear signs are to keep your vehicles and families safe from collisions.

Im gonna use my Z7 during the 2nd hunt to help keep vehicles/families safe! emoLaugh

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