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 ›