The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is permitting Mill Creek MetroParks to have 50 deer killed in the area near its Boardman golf course — not the 100 it requested. The MetroParks asked the agency Sept. 10 for permission to use sharpshooters to reduce the deer population by 100. Geoffrey Westerfield, ODNR’s assistant wildlife management supervisor, wrote in a Wednesday email to Rachel Sobnosky, the MetroParks’ natural resource manager, that the permit is 50 deer “after a considerable amount of time assessing your request, an assessment of both the data you submitted with ...