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4- The Oakville Beaver, Friday August 17, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Moving deer may cause them harm: naturalists Continued from page 1 Burlington resident Linda Silvester, who drives past the site of the Palm Place Developments project every weekday as she travels to work, has been aware of the deer in the area for the last two or three years. "I hadn't seen them for quite a while and I thought, `alright, this construction is going to happen, so obviously they've relocated them,' and then low and behold the other morning there they were sitting at the fence looking pretty scared," said Silvester. "I saw the equipment and I thought, `Oh my God, they've put the equipment in and they haven't even done anything about these deer." Silvester fears that the deer will eventually leave the area in search of another habitat when the condo development makes their current home uninhabitable. It is what happens to the deer after they begin their journey that has Silvester worried. "They're in the middle of a city. What are they going to do?" she said. "Are they going to walk up Great Lakes Boulevard? Are they going to walk down Lakeshore and get killed?" Physically moving the animals to a new habitat may seem like the ideal solution to this problem, however Ministry of Natural Resources officials are advising against this. "Trying to tranquilize deer in an open setting like that is tough," said Ron Allen, a Fish and Wildlife Technical Specialist with the Ministry "Deer don't tranquilize well. They often die of something called Capture Myopathy, so it gets to be a risky business." Ron Allen, Ministry of Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife Specialist of Natural Resources. "Deer don't tranquilize well. They often die of something called Capture Myopathy, so it gets to be a risky business." 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Allen's one concern, that a tightly fenced in construction site could restrict the deer's movements, was laid to rest when he was told the fence surrounding the site was only between six and seven feet in height. "They would easily jump over that and they can also go through an eight inch space underneath a fence. It's just amazing," said Allen. "Unless it's really fenced in tight with a 10- or 12-foot high fence they will get out." Pat Berne, General Manager of Palm Place Development, says the deer don't even have to go that far to get away from the construction. "They've actually moved over to the east side of the site. They were all over the site to begin with, now they're on the east side and we're not building on the east side, so they can stay over there as long as they want," he said. "There used to be a fence between the two sites and that fence is down now, so they travel freely." 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