Dec 6, 2011 11:57 AM
The East Hampton Airport deer fence is an excellent example of a government-funded project that maximizes cost and minimizes results. This didn’t happen by chance, or by a contractor screw-up—it was actually designed that way and approved by town and federal government agencies.
Not unlike the Depression era, government-funded mosquito control project that tried to eliminate mosquito breeding habitat without the input of a biologist familiar with the breeding habits of mosquitoes, there appears to have been no input from a deer biologist in the design of the airport deer fence.
Someone familiar with the biology of mosquitoes would have pointed out that a grid of ditches spaced 100 feet apart and designed to drain the upper salt marsh at low tide would not significantly impact the mosquito population. Mosquitoes lay their... more
Not unlike the Depression era, government-funded mosquito control project that tried to eliminate mosquito breeding habitat without the input of a biologist familiar with the breeding habits of mosquitoes, there appears to have been no input from a deer biologist in the design of the airport deer fence.
Someone familiar with the biology of mosquitoes would have pointed out that a grid of ditches spaced 100 feet apart and designed to drain the upper salt marsh at low tide would not significantly impact the mosquito population. Mosquitoes lay their... more
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