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From: K.E. <admin@edu-cyberpg.com>
Date: May 12, 2008 2:49:16 PM EDT
To: "ip@v2.listbox.com" <ip@v2.listbox.com>, David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Security and Pittsburgh's Airport
The airport is restricted private property but if you know someone and get your name on the list and go shoot animals.
Video: Hunting On Pittsburgh International Airport Property
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The airport should have a professional wildlife biologist on site, as have many other major airports, including Philadelphia and Cleveland. Those airports contract with the USDA for that service. Pittsburgh does not.
Allegheny County Airport Authority gave 28 of its employees exclusive rights to hunt deer on its 9,000 acres in and around Findlay Township.
You can carry a gun and shoot . You can even bring your friends with you and no one at the airport knows who those people are.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/16192688/detail.html
"The airport authority allows those 28 authorized employees to bring buddies along, and officials have no idea who those buddies are. We do not track the names of the guests," Jenny said.
Just how many deer live on the airport's 9,000 acres is unknown, because according to a 2007 USDA document, the airport authority has never commissioned a deer density survey.
Even without the study, the USDA says current density far exceeds the recommended five-to-12 deer per square mile.
Karen Ellis
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