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• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  We need to do the same thing on MDI. My two year old son just got biten by a tick and got the red bulls eye rash and is being treated for lyme! I am pis$ed! I never seen this before in my life and now my little boy has it! This is not acceptable.

• Anonymous

  Why don’t they tranquilize the deer and haul them up to northern Maine? The past few winters have kiiled off the herd. No doe permits are issued up there.  That would be the sensible thing to do, but not cost effective.

• Anonymous

  Only problem is that’d probably spread the disease up there where it isn’t yet… probably because the deer numbers are so low.

• Anonymous

  Only problem is that’d probably spread the disease up there where it isn’t yet… probably because the deer numbers are so low.

• Anonymous

  Maybe a little deer predation would be a good thing to protect people.

• Anonymous

  would fill quite a few freezers and feed a lot of hungry people. i’d hate to hear that they went to waste.

• Anonymous

  would fill quite a few freezers and feed a lot of hungry people. i’d hate to hear that they went to waste.

• Anonymous

  would fill quite a few freezers and feed a lot of hungry people. i’d hate to hear that they went to waste.

• Benevolent Despot

  They need to rid the island of all the deer and hire guinea hens to clean the ticks up, among other methods.

• Benevolent Despot

  They need to rid the island of all the deer and hire guinea hens to clean the ticks up, among other methods.

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Anonymous

  So how about allowing hunting? 

• Benevolent Despot

  Because they don’t belong up here especially with their ticks.
  It is sort of like illegally dumping bass into a trout pond…

• Benevolent Despot

  Because they don’t belong up here especially with their ticks.
  It is sort of like illegally dumping bass into a trout pond…

• Benevolent Despot

  Because they don’t belong up here especially with their ticks.
  It is sort of like illegally dumping bass into a trout pond…

• Nicky Nickolan

  How did the ticks with lyme disease get there in the first place? Did the deers take the ferry over and party on the mainland then head back to the Island? Maybe instead of blaming deers you could just get a bunch of chickens to eat the ticks. Do you people seriously think birds dont fly by and drop ticks. Then you humans will be the only breeding and feeding on the island – can we hunt you down and kill you too? Why do Mainers alays think kiliing is the answer to every animal issue??

• Anonymous

  I know that there is a health issue…but,  isn’t there another way?
  May we never get to the point that we start ‘treating’ highly contagious or lethal human diseases with the same swift solution. Oh, wait….euthanasia, I forgot.

• Anonymous

  yeah bring in a pack of wolves

• Anonymous

  Wow, please tell me that you don’t have kids?

  Birds don’t “drop” ticks, and if the ticks are using the deer to complete their life cycle then it is a perfectly logical method of cutting the tick population?

  CHICKENS? REALLY? Do you drive a prius?

• Anonymous

  Wow, please tell me that you don’t have kids?

  Birds don’t “drop” ticks, and if the ticks are using the deer to complete their life cycle then it is a perfectly logical method of cutting the tick population?

  CHICKENS? REALLY? Do you drive a prius?

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• Anonymous

  I hope they process the meat and give it to homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the state and not just let it rot.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4CKS3PK5BXBTBCTZ4YP3UPYVKA Jack – Lu

  Let’s all hope the residents go ‘gun crazy’ all the while they’re culling the herd.  Sounds like a small island with only so much room to hunt. Would be really sad if someone was hit by a stray bullet–worse, if  it  hit someone who has lyme disease!

• Anonymous

  Deer are not as resilient as some other species and typically do not survive being relocated.

• Anonymous

  Look for a whole raft of venison recipes from Sandy Oliver.  Since they’ve got 5 times the number of deer per square mile as the mainland, there can’t be a vegetable garden that’ll survive on the island.

• Anonymous

  It’s a thought process like that, which gives hunters a bad image.  On these small communities it could be very successful using archery.  Firearms should not be used in rural areas except by professionals and only then if it is safe and legal to do so.  You don’t need a whole ton of room for archery to be an effective management tool, in fact it happens all over the country in much more populated places.

• Anonymous

  It’s a thought process like that, which gives hunters a bad image.  On these small communities it could be very successful using archery.  Firearms should not be used in rural areas except by professionals and only then if it is safe and legal to do so.  You don’t need a whole ton of room for archery to be an effective management tool, in fact it happens all over the country in much more populated places.

• Anonymous

  Deer can swim quite far, how do you think they got there in the first place.  Ticks may carry disease, and deer carry ticks, deer can swim, and that’s how it all got there.  Chickens wouldn’t curb the tick population enough to limit the spread of lyme disease on that island, for something like that to work the foliage can’t be thick anywhere, and low enough to the ground with so many chickens that it’s just not even remotely feasible.  Not all Mainers think killing is the only option, if it were so simple as one or two problem deer, relocation could be looked at but it’s not.  It is a high density of deer that is the issue and maintaining a smaller density of deer there will be the most effective way to limit lyme disease on the island.

• Anonymous

  Deer can swim quite far, how do you think they got there in the first place.  Ticks may carry disease, and deer carry ticks, deer can swim, and that’s how it all got there.  Chickens wouldn’t curb the tick population enough to limit the spread of lyme disease on that island, for something like that to work the foliage can’t be thick anywhere, and low enough to the ground with so many chickens that it’s just not even remotely feasible.  Not all Mainers think killing is the only option, if it were so simple as one or two problem deer, relocation could be looked at but it’s not.  It is a high density of deer that is the issue and maintaining a smaller density of deer there will be the most effective way to limit lyme disease on the island.

• Anonymous

  Deer can swim quite far, how do you think they got there in the first place.  Ticks may carry disease, and deer carry ticks, deer can swim, and that’s how it all got there.  Chickens wouldn’t curb the tick population enough to limit the spread of lyme disease on that island, for something like that to work the foliage can’t be thick anywhere, and low enough to the ground with so many chickens that it’s just not even remotely feasible.  Not all Mainers think killing is the only option, if it were so simple as one or two problem deer, relocation could be looked at but it’s not.  It is a high density of deer that is the issue and maintaining a smaller density of deer there will be the most effective way to limit lyme disease on the island.

• Anonymous

  they got infected by liberal democrats

• Anonymous

  they got infected by liberal democrats

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  the meat is still good we can save some money at our prisions

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Anonymous

  live trap 500 coyotes transplant them there

• Cuddles O’donovan

  cattle drive em to the state house and have a bbq; for the DHHS retirement party !

• Anonymous

  Like the thought but who pays for it

• Anonymous

  Like the thought but who pays for it

• Anonymous

  Like the thought but who pays for it

• Anonymous

  Like the thought but who pays for it

• Anonymous

  Like the thought but who pays for it

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• Anonymous

  I am sure there are plenty of more than willing hunters who would relish the opportunity for free

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Isabelle-Wallace-Warren/1674549096 Isabelle Wallace Warren

  Wonder why insecticide to kill the ticks hasn’t been mentioned ? Makes a lot more sense to me than killing deer since mice and other critters carry the ticks too.

• lwilley

  Um, wouldn’t that just be bringing Lyme’s Disease to northern Maine?

• nicker7

  I think this is a great idea…..the State wastes alot of money on so many things, at least this is for disease control.

• Anonymous

  I think that would be adding insult to injury.  Coyotes don’t eat just deer and they breed just as fast. Firsst thingg you know, the island would be overrun with coyotes.

• Anonymous

  Coyotes eat moose, deer, mice, ants, plants, humans, cats, ground hogs, birds and especially rabbits.  An added bonus..the rabies would keep the human invasive species in check.

• Anonymous

  This is very informative: 

  http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/documents/special_features/tickhandbook.pdf

  It shows many and varied methods to alleviate the problem.