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# Friday, August 01, 2008
Suburban Baltimore Approves Deer Hunt
Posted by DDH Staff

A recent phone survey of people living in suburban Baltimore’s Howard County, Maryland, found that 81 percent supported managed deer hunts.  According to the Baltimore Sun, “About 58 percent said there are too many deer in the county.  Asked their opinion on what methods work, 42 percent said managed hunts are ‘very effective,’ and 40 percent said hunts are ‘somewhat effective.’”

Given those results, managed deer hunts will continue at a half dozen county parks, this fall and into the foreseeable future.  “County officials say the hunts are needed to reduce an excessive deer population that they say has led indirectly to more transmission of Lyme disease, damage to vegetation and ecosystems in parks, and added to the danger of collisions for motorists.”

Animal rights activists opposed the hunts, and still claim that contraception could cure deer problems.

However, as the Sun noted, “The $22,333 survey was organized by Donald F. Norris, chairman of public policy at the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In a report accompanying the results, Norris wrote that ‘current scientific evidence shows that contraception does not work,’ and that capture and transfer is also ‘not a viable option.’  About half the respondents said they had either been involved in a collision with a deer or have a relative or friend who had been in the past five years. More than half said they had bushes or crops damaged by deer.”

— By Brian McCombie for deeranddeerhunting.com



Friday, August 01, 2008 2:30:15 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #  Comments [1]
Friday, August 01, 2008 4:37:54 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Well that's great news for suburban Baltimore folk! Good for them - should give few people a chance to hunt that wouldn't normally hunt.
Tom Sorenson
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