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Police, paid sharpshooters, archers: How Upstate NY communities kill excess deer

http://www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/2017/03/paid_sharpshooters_police_archers_shoot_excess_deer_in_upstate_ny_communities.html

The article provides info on each approach and uses cull numbers and costs for the towns that choose one of the approaches.

Because I'm a bow hunter, I'll include the following:

 
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USING LOCAL ARCHERS

Bernd Blossey, an associate professor at Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources, volunteers his time as a veteran deer hunter and archer to the village of Trumansburg's Deer Management Program, which he helped devise. Notice the special red light screwed to the front of his Hoyt Bow, which he uses to illuminate the deer. He said the deer can't see the red light. The use of bowhunters to cull deer is the most popular, and cheapest approach used by Upstate communities. Some allow hunters, though, with firearms. They're using either DEC animal nuisance permits or handing out extra DEC doe (antler-less deer) tags to hunters who participate.

 

 

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