[APWG] Fw: Deer Control Article in The Washington Post
Wayne Tyson
landrest at cox.net
Thu Nov 4 17:14:21 CDT 2010
Hi,
Are y'all opening a discussion on the defects and merits of the issue, or?
WT
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> Hi,
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> In case you missed this.
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> Thanks,
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> Jil
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> Subject
> Deer Control Article in The
> Washington Post
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> Cost of deer collisions
> Estimated costs and number of annual accidents, by state
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic20164.gif)Estimated costs and number of
> annual accidents, by state
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> SOURCES: State Farm Insurance, Fortune Magazine | The Washington Post -
> Nov. 2, 2010
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> The Washington Post, Tuesday 2 Nov, 2010, page A15
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> Deer overpopulation taking economic toll
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> By Allan Sloan
> Monday, November 1, 2010; 10:26 PM
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> If you think deer are cute woodland creatures like Bambi, think again. In
> the real world - to the extent that suburbs like mine are the real world -
> deer are pests. "Rats with hooves" is the term for them in my household,
> which is plagued by deer that eat our plants, defecate all over our yard
> and show no fear of humans. Then there's the issue of Lyme disease carried
> by deer ticks, an especially serious problem if you've got young kids or
> grandkids. And there's the scare we got last year when a deer herd began
> crossing the six-lane highway on which were driving at 60 miles an hour.
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> In the Disney movie, of course, hunters shot Bambi's mother. I used to
> think that was terrible. Now, though, I think what's terrible is not that
> Bambi's mother was shot, but that the hunters didn't also get Bambi, his
> father, and the rest of the herd.
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> And since I'm supposed to write about business, not vent about wildlife,
> let me show you some numbers about how appallingly expensive rats with
> hooves are in terms of dollars and human lives.
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> We're talking big bucks here. (You can groan now.) Deer-vehicle accidents
> resulted in more than $3.8 billion of insurance claims and driver costs in
> the year ended June 30, according to State Farm Insurance. Such collisions
> resulted in about 140 human deaths, according to statistics from the
> National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Serious stuff.
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> We're not even including the financial and social cost of Lyme disease,
> the
> expense of hauling away deer carcasses, and the cost in money and time
> protecting vegetation and crops from voracious deer predation.
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> State Farm estimates that in the 12 months ended June 30, there were 1.1
> million deer-vehicle accidents nationwide that resulted in $3.8 billion of
> insurance payouts and driver costs. The total exceeds $4 billion when we
> throw in the cost of accidents in which no claims were made because
> drivers
> had no comprehensive insurance on their vehicles, or no insurance at all.
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> The costs in the adjacent chart combine State Farm's estimate of an
> average
> $3,103 per claim paid by insurers with the estimated deductible, $250,
> absorbed by drivers. We're using a $3,353 cost per accident in all states,
> because State Farm doesn't provide state-by-state data.
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> You see that in 16 states, costs run nine digits. In Virginia, by State
> Farm's estimate, there were nearly 52,000 deer-related accidents last year
> that cost $174.3 million. In Maryland, deer-vehicle collisions numbered
> close to 32,000 at a cost of $106.9 million. Even the District of
> Columbia,
> not known as a woodland paradise, has roughly 500 deer-vehicle accidents a
> year, according to State Farm. (You can blame most of them on the deer
> infesting Rock Creek Park.)
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> State Farm has published data about deer accidents for seven years to get
> attention for its accident-mitigation tips: be especially vigilant from 6
> to 9 p.m.; remember that deer usually travel in herds; don't rely on
> car-mounted deer whistles; and so on. It does some interesting math to
> reach its conclusions. It extrapolates total deer-vehicle damage based on
> claims made by its policy holders. For example, if State Farm has a third
> of the auto policies in a given state, it multiplies its cost and the
> number of accidents by three.
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> State Farm says there were 21 percent more accidents reported in the
> 2009-2010 survey than five years earlier, even though vehicle-miles driven
> are up only 2 percent. That's a telling statistic. It means either that
> drivers have gotten a lot worse at avoiding deer, which seems unlikely, or
> there are a lot more deer on the roads than there used to be, which seems
> extremely likely.
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> Last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration counted 182
> deaths caused by animal-vehicle collisions. The Insurance Institute for
> Highway Safety estimates that 75 to 80 percent of those deaths involve
> deer. Call it 140 people killed last year because Bambi was where he
> didn't
> belong.
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> Look, I'm all in favor of cute woodland creatures - as long as they stay
> in
> the woods, and aren't destroying the habitat on which plants, birds,
> insects and reptiles depend. Yeah, deer are just animals and it's not
> their
> fault, but they're a menace because there are far too many of them. When
> you see the New Jersey Audubon Society allowing carefully selected people
> onto its nature preserves to shoot deer, as it has since 2005, you know
> that an excess of deer is an ecological disaster.
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> The next time some bleeding-heart tells you how cruel it is to kill deer
> to
> keep them from hurting people and causing property damage, wave these
> death
> and damage numbers around. Up with people! Down with Bambi!
>
>
> Allan Sloan is Fortune magazine's senior editor at large.
>
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