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Deer Management Survey

1.Please choose the category that describes you best.
2.Please choose the category that describes you best.
3.Please choose the category that best describes your age.
4.How frequently have you seen live deer in East Lansing in the past year?
5.How many deer do you see near your East Lansing home or workplace in a typical week?
6.Generally, which of the following best describes your feelings about deer in the City of East Lansing
7.Which of the following concerns do you have about deer in the City of East Lansing? (choose all that apply)
8.Have you ever been involved in a car-deer accident in the City of East Lansing?
9.Have you ever been involved in a car-deer accident outside the City of East Lansing?
10.Have you had a deer run in front of you, resulting in a near-miss while driving in the City of East Lansing?
11.Have you had a deer run in front of you, resulting in a near-miss while driving outside of the City of East Lansing?
12.Have your personal garden plants or landscaping been damaged by deer?
13.If your garden plants or landscaping have been damaged by deer, do you use any of the following measures to prevent damage? Please rate the effectiveness of the measure(s) you use.
Highly effective
Somewhat effective
Not effective
N/A
Fencing
Odor or Taste Repellants
Frightening Devices (i.e. lights or noise)
Deer resistant plants
Other (please specify in the text box below)
14.How concerned are you about the transmission of diseases, such as Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, from deer to people?
15.Communities that have adopted deer management plans typically utilize a variety of measures to help minimize conflicts with deer and to reduce their population. If the East Lansing City Council decides to actively manage the deer herd, please indicate your level of support for the following.
Strongly support
Moderately support
Do not support
Do nothing and let nature take its course
Educate residents on deer-resistant landscape plants
Install signs or reflectors at known deer crossings
Manage roadside vegetation to increase driver visibility
Enforce Ordinance No. 1334, prohibiting supplemental feeding of deer by residents
Use non-lethal methods, like birth control, to slow the growth of the deer population
Use lethal methods, such as hunting, to reduce the deer population
Other (please specify in the text box below)
16.Are you aware that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is battling a highly contagious and always fatal disease among the deer herd called Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)?
17.The only proven way to slow the distribution of CWD is to contain it. The DNR is currently trying to reduce the deer herd near the sites of the infected deer found in Ingham, Clinton, Ionia, Kent, Mecosta and Montcalm counties (data as of February 2018) Please indicate your level of support for the general DNR disease surveillance culling of deer in these counties.
18.Would you be willing to attend and participate in a Deer Management Plan: Metrics of Success community meeting?
19.Would you be interested in being trained on and participating in an annual program conducting deer population surveys of East Lansing's deer herd in late fall?
20.Would you be interested in being trained on and participating in a deer browse vegetation survey throughout the year at the deer exclosures in the City's parks?
21.Would you like to provide any additional information or thoughts on the City's deer population in East Lansing?
22.Please complete the following so that we may identify levels of interest within specific areas of the City. Your responses will be kept confidential and your name or address will not be identified with any results.
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