I receaved this in an E-mail to day.
If you like come to one of these meetings and voice your opinion.
News from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
May 4, 2004
Volume 34, Number 126
Contact: Ken Reynolds, Deer Damage Assistance Program Manager, phone:
302-653-2883 or Jason Gleockler, Public Affairs, phone: 302-739-4506
Public Workshops on Deer Management May 20, May 27 and June 2
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's
Division of Fish and Wildlife will be holding public informational
workshops in each county to discuss the amendment of new deer seasons.
DNREC is amending the regulations to promote the harvest of female deer.
The proposed changes include increasing the general deer bag limit from
two deer to four deer, adding one day to the October muzzleloader season,
adding shotgun deer hunting days in October for antlerless deer and
changing tagging requirements for deer checked using the automated
phone/internet system.
"This will hopefully bring the deer population to manageable levels and
address the growing issues of ecosystem damage, crop damage, property
damage, vehicle collisions, and lyme disease transmission," says DNREC's
Deer Damage Assistance Program Manager, Ken Reynolds.
"I believe that deer overabundance is an ecological crisis.Â* Deer browsing
of vegetation has been documented to cause decreased abundance and in some
cases local extinctions of amphibians, birds, mammals, rare plants, and
reptiles," says University of Delaware Assistant Professor of Wildlife
Ecology, Dr. Jake Bowman. "Reducing deer numbers will help conserve
Delaware's fragile biodiversity and promote overall ecosystem health."
The Kent County workshop will take place at 7 p.m., May 20 in DNREC's
auditorium, Richardson and Robbins Building, 89 Kings Highway, Dover.
The New Castle County workshop will be held at 7 p.m., May 27 in the
Education Building at the Ommelanden Hunter Education Facility on Route 9,
New Castle.
The Sussex County workshop will be held at 7 p.m., June 2 at the Del Tech
Owens Campus in the lecture hall of the William Carter Partnership Center,
Route 18, Georgetown.
The Department has contracted Dr. Jake Bowman to develop a comprehensive
deer management plan for the State.
I think the fewer people they get as these meetings the better they like it. Also what is the dell that you can't use an inline rifle that shots smokeless powder. I a going to ask Eugene Moore about this, will keep you posted.
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