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FAIRFAX, Va. - Fairfax City wants to become the first community in Virginia to use surgical sterilization to control its deer population.
All that's needed to go forward with the experiment is final approval from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, and approval looks likely.
The man who will lead it, wildlife biologist Dr. Anthony DeNicola, has run similar programs in other parts of the country.
He estimates the City of Fairfax has between 50 to 75 deer within its 6 square miles, fewer than he initially expected.
Under the five-year program, the female deer will undergo surgery to remove their ovaries, with a goal of having all the does sterilized by the second year.
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Fairfax City is actually quite small. I'm sure the deer traverse in and out of the city. Even if they were to sterilize every deer within the city, unsterilized deer will wander in. It's like trying to keep a square foot of sand at the beach dry.
The mayor said he didn't want to hunt them with bows, because he didn't think that they killed effectively. Then he said the usual thing that guns are bad. So that leaves surgery. What a crock. Again, even if they killed every deer in the little city, it is surrounded by deer that will just fill the void.
