Essex County Scales Back Annual Deer Hunt
The county's deer management program is less than half last year's sessions; there will be no hunting in Eagle Rock Reservation.
The sixth year of Essex County's deer management program —slated to begin Jan. 22 — has been scaled back from previous years, County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. said Tuesday. The program has been reduced from last year's 24 hunting sessions in 12 days to nine sessions in six days. It will run from Jan. 22 to Feb. 7 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also this year, there will be no hunting in Eagle Rock Reservation. "This program, in my mind, is more of a maintenance program each and every year just to maintain what we have," DiVincenzo said. "The numbers speak for themselves." On county roadways, the number of deer carcases removed last year was down to 201, from 363 in 2011. Verona Township Manager Joseph Martin said he thought the deer …
Sunny Forrest
11:25 am on Sunday, January 27, 2013
If you moved here from the big nearby city, most of which were not original inhabitants either, then you know the deer were the original inhabitants of this once "bucolic" area and not until the non-provincial term "landscape garden" became common that deer became the enemy of the locals (Johnny-come-latelys or not) whose bushes became more important than living, breathing life. I agree with a … more ›