Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Township weighing options for reducing deer population.
West Caldwell is inhabited by approximately 50 deer per square mile, according to a deer density survey conducted recently by a state biologist. Township resident Michael Rauschenberger, a sharpshooter offering to conduct a free deer hunt for the town, presented the results of the survey at Tuesday night's West Caldwell Council meeting. Rauschenberger said he and the biologist, who he has worked with during deer hunts on the county level, along with two other volunteers, drove around town spotting deer for three hours on Monday, Feb. 25 and Friday, March 1. The biologist, who donated her time, used a formula based on the sightings recorded to determine that there are about 50 deer living per square mile in the five-square-mile town. …
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Do you think the county should continue the annual hunt?
Let the hunt begin. The sixth year of Essex County's deer management program begins Tuesday. The hunt will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays until Feb. 7. Hunting will take place at South Mountain Reservation in South Orange on Tuesday and Thursday, and Jan. 29 in the afternoon only. In addition, hunters will be allowed to track trails in the Hilltop Reservation and the old Essex County Hospital Center site in North Caldwell in the mornings and afternoons on Jan 31, as well as on Feb. 5 and 7. The hunt has been scaled back this year. The program has been reduced from 24 hunting sessions in 12 days in 2012 to nine sessions in six days this year. Open/Closed During the deer hunt, the reservations and Fairview Avenue in Cedar Grove will …
Saturday, February 4, 2012
As the annual deer management program reaches the midway point, we'd like to know your thoughts.
Essex County is midway through its annual winter deer hunt that started on Jan. 17 in the hopes of curbing the whitetail deer population. Since 2008, volunteer sharpshooters have stationed themselves at platforms in county reservations to cull deer. Last year, the county reported that the efforts had curbed 1,089 deer since the program's beginning. In 2010, the deer hunt spread to three reservations - South Mountain, Eagle Rock and Hilltop. In addition, the county has installed traffic deflectors and started replanting the undergrowth in some of the reservations as additional methods to curb deer. This year's hunt will finish on Feb. 23. Even after four years, some people object to the hunt and say it's inhumane and ineffective. We'd like …
Essex Hiker
11:13 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
It looks like some posters here don't remember what they should have learned in middle school -- that prey animals (including large herbivores like deer) do not control their own numbers. That is the job of predators in a balanced eco-system, including large (dangerous) ones like cougars, wolves and black bears. If the hysteria surrounding last summer's sighting of a single female bear and her … more ›