Deer Task Force Going Online
August 18, 2020 at 3:29 a.m.
By David [email protected]
City Councilman and Deer Task Force Chair Jeff Grose announced at the Warsaw Common Council meeting Monday night, “The Deer Task Force Management Team, about six weeks ago, made the difficult decision during these unique times to avoid our traditional training session at the Warsaw Police Department and move everything online.”
Unlike the past several years, he said this year no new archers will be invited and only veteran archers will be asked to apply online and participate in the program.
“Next month, I will propose to you, like I’ve always done, a resolution ... I’ll make that presentation so we can actually participate in another reduction effort,” Grose said.
Last year, he said things went really well. They had a high hit count and the hunters used phones to log their deer kills and report in on their phones.
“It was just very, very helpful. Not only for us tracking the archers and where they were and what they were doing, but the archers were very happy with it also. It just stopped all the paperwork and it was very beneficial,” Grose said.
This year, he said, the Deer Task Force will use technology to take another “positive step”: applying to participate, landowners asking for their properties to be used, all online.
Grose said they’re not doing the traditional in-person training this year because the WPD conference room would have 50-70 guys in close quarters.
“We just felt it would be very inappropriate to do it that way,” Grose said, adding that more information will be available to the council next month.
He said they hope to have the application, landowner forms and all the other information online by Aug. 31. The information will be on the city’s website through the police department.
“That will give them two weeks on their own time – three in the afternoon, three in the morning – to apply and go through the process all online,” Grose said.
City Councilman and Deer Task Force Chair Jeff Grose announced at the Warsaw Common Council meeting Monday night, “The Deer Task Force Management Team, about six weeks ago, made the difficult decision during these unique times to avoid our traditional training session at the Warsaw Police Department and move everything online.”
Unlike the past several years, he said this year no new archers will be invited and only veteran archers will be asked to apply online and participate in the program.
“Next month, I will propose to you, like I’ve always done, a resolution ... I’ll make that presentation so we can actually participate in another reduction effort,” Grose said.
Last year, he said things went really well. They had a high hit count and the hunters used phones to log their deer kills and report in on their phones.
“It was just very, very helpful. Not only for us tracking the archers and where they were and what they were doing, but the archers were very happy with it also. It just stopped all the paperwork and it was very beneficial,” Grose said.
This year, he said, the Deer Task Force will use technology to take another “positive step”: applying to participate, landowners asking for their properties to be used, all online.
Grose said they’re not doing the traditional in-person training this year because the WPD conference room would have 50-70 guys in close quarters.
“We just felt it would be very inappropriate to do it that way,” Grose said, adding that more information will be available to the council next month.
He said they hope to have the application, landowner forms and all the other information online by Aug. 31. The information will be on the city’s website through the police department.
“That will give them two weeks on their own time – three in the afternoon, three in the morning – to apply and go through the process all online,” Grose said.
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