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Deer Management

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Deer Feasting on Fair Haven Community Garden

Volunteers ask for fencing to protect garden.

The deer in Fair Haven are well-fed. That's because they're feasting from a well-tended community garden. Garden keepers tried to fence the white-tailed critters out of depleting their healthy produce with a 7-foot fence. That didn't work, though. It was jumped with the same ease as a kid lifting a leg over a picket fence for one giant stag that was found muching contentedly square in the middle of it over the summer. "With all our modern gardens, this area is a veritable smorgasbord for them," Mayor Ben Lucarelli said. "It's happening at the community garden and all over town. It's not just vegetables, either. Tulips are like crack to them. Where I live, about a week after the tulips come up, they're right out of the ground again because …

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natale c. siclare

4:18 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

Take a deep breath and re-read the article!...the fencing is being paid by the plot fees!   more ›

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Deer Hunting Season Begins Oct. 1 in Monmouth County

Permits go on sale on Sept. 10.

In many of Monmouth County's parks, deer hunting is an exercise in deer management. The hunting program was initiated in 2004, when Monmouth County experienced a booming population of white-tailed deer that was proven to threaten forestation in the county. The Monmouth County Parks System recognizes hunting as a means to control deer population, and therefore control the rate of deforestation in county parks. "We are not out there hunting just because we want to, we are rally seriously trying to manage the deer population," said Karen Livingstone, Public Information Officer for the Monmouth County Parks System. Deforestation is visible at about a four-foot height, or the maximum height at which a deer can reach to graze. Many shrubs at …

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Michael Nikolis

10:21 pm on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when conserved by the sportsman. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsman as enemies of wildlife, are wholly ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping wild creatures from total extermination" Theodore Roosevelt   more ›

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