Deer 'Contraceptives'???

[CNHT]

Why give the deer birth control pills when I can just hit'em with my Tundra and haul the meat home?
Methinks the F & G have waaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.

Associated Press - September 13, 2007 9:15 AM ET
Fish and Game looking into deer contraceptives

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire wildlife officials are looking into using contraceptives to help control the state's deer population.

The state Fish and Game Commission yesterday gave the okay for officials to draft legislation to approve using deer contraceptives. The use apparently would not be imminent, even if the Legislature approves.

Steve Weber, director of Fish and Game's wildlife division says the federal government is considering approving a drug that can be shot into deer. A single dose could mean contraceptive coverage for several years.

Information from: New Hampshire Union Leader, http://www.unionleader.com

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Yeah right... AP like I care what YOU think.   

[J’raxis 270145]

Nice use of tax dollars. Right up there with measuring cow farts...

[KBCraig]

They should send Ray Buckley out to put condoms on the bucks.

[Lex]

A direct link to the source would be nice.

[CNHT]

They should send Ray Buckley out to put condoms on the bucks.

[CNHT]

A direct link to the source would be nice.

Boston Globe, WCAX, and The Union Leader.....

[JellyFish]

News from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
September 13, 2007
Phone: (603) 271-3211
Email: info@wildlife.nh.gov
For information and online licenses, visit http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us

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CONTACT:
Steve Weber: (603) 271-2461
Jane Vachon: (603) 271-3211
September 13, 2007

NH FISH AND GAME IS *NOT* CONSIDERING CONTROLLING DEER NUMBERS WITH CONTRACEPTIVES

CONCORD, N.H. -- The NH Fish and Game Commission voted on September 12, 2007, to move forward with an initiative to regulate the use of drugs by any person for fertility control or growth stimulation in wildlife. The initiative is intended to prevent the use of wildlife fertility control drugs without a permit from the NH Fish and Game Department. The Department has no intent to use such drugs nor to permit their use anywhere in New Hampshire.

The initiative to regulate the use of wildlife fertility control drugs is being pursued because of recent advancements in the development of a single-dose, multi-year drug to prevent pregnancy in deer. While the development of that drug is still ongoing, and the possible federal registration by the US Environmental Protection Agency is pending, Fish and Game officials believe it is important to have clear authority to regulate the use of these drugs if they are approved in the future.

News reports that Fish and Game is considering the use of contraceptives to control the deer population are simply not accurate, according to Steve Weber, Chief of Wildlife for the Department. "The initiative is intended to prevent the use of wildlife contraceptive drugs by anyone without specific permission from the Department," Weber said. "There are no situations that exist in New Hampshire where the use of fertility control drugs would even be contemplated by the Fish and Game Department."

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[dalebert]

Here's some deer birth control:

[lildog]

Here's some deer birth control:

You beat me too my point!

Why spend all this money on deer condoms and crap like that when you can just extend hunting season or increase the limit.  Problem solved right there!

[CNHT]

News from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
September 13, 2007
Phone: (603) 271-3211
Email: info@wildlife.nh.gov
For information and online licenses, visit http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us

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CONTACT:
Steve Weber: (603) 271-2461
Jane Vachon: (603) 271-3211
September 13, 2007

NH FISH AND GAME IS *NOT* CONSIDERING CONTROLLING DEER NUMBERS WITH CONTRACEPTIVES

Great! Two points:

1) The press lies, often, and with great abandon.

2) Increased hunting would solve the problem and even allow poorer families to stock their freezers with good, lean meat for the winter. Another free-market solution.

[Raineyrocks]

Nice use of tax dollars. Right up there with measuring cow farts...

Yeah, really!  I think there was even a study of how long it took an ant to cross a road, I'm not kidding, I remember reading about it a few years ago.  

[mvpel]

The problem is that more and more towns are attempting or succeeding with efforts to ban hunting on town-owned land.  An initiative to do so in Merrimack on 7/8 of a square mile of town land was defeated last year, but you can bet it'll come up again.

[J’raxis 270145]

Nice use of tax dollars. Right up there with measuring cow farts...

Yeah, really!  I think there was even a study of how long it took an ant to cross a road, I'm not kidding, I remember reading about it a few years ago.  

People think FDR's WPA was shut down at the end of the Depression. It wasn't; the rest of our government bureaucracries basically just became it instead.

[CNHT]

Nice use of tax dollars. Right up there with measuring cow farts...

Yeah, really!  I think there was even a study of how long it took an ant to cross a road, I'm not kidding, I remember reading about it a few years ago.  

People think FDR's WPA was shut down at the end of the Depression. It wasn't; the rest of our government bureaucracries basically just became it instead.

Actually we now have the WIA, which was the brainchild of Robert Reich and about which we exposed a good bit of corruption and waste.

[Kat Kanning]

You'd be hard pressed to see a deer in NH.  I've only seen two or three in nearly 4 years.  I don't think they need control.