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I Interoffice Memo <br />Date: <br />To: <br />July 25, 1990 <br />Orono City Council <br />Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator <br />From: <br />Re: <br />Melvin Kilbo, Chief of Police <br />Bow & Arrow Deer Hunt <br />In the past few years, the City of Orono has allowed bow and <br />arrow deer hunting? permits on private property with certain <br />restrictions (such as 10 acre minimum property, etc.) <br />In reviewing records from the past two years, it was <br />determined that only five (5) deer were harvested in 1989, <br />and six (6) deer harvested in 1988. It has been estimated <br />that in 1989, approx. 24 deer were hit by vehicles on <br />roadways. Note that this number is approx, five times the <br />number of deer that were actually harvested by hun ers. <br />There have been shotgun hunts regulated by Hennepin County <br />Park Reserve in Baker Park for the last few years. In 1986, <br />54 deer were harvested, with a 72% harvest, in 1987, 41 deer <br />with 50% harvest, and in 1988, 51 deer with a 65% harvest. <br />It should be noted that there is not a deer hunt planned for <br />1990. Mr. Larry Gillette of the Hennepin Parks indicated <br />that the deer herds remain very stable year to year, and <br />that all the hunting has done is shift the deer herd from <br />one location to another. The deer herd in Baker Park at the <br />present time is down to a manageable level. <br />The primary purpose of the City allowing permits in the past <br />I