NEWS
November 24, 1996
WHEN THE Department of Natural Resources is involved, very often its solution is to kill the animals. The Sun's Nov. 16 editorial has now taken a typical DNR approach, advocating ill-conceived and cruel managed deer hunts.DNR's deer-killing philosophy is both ineffective and inhumane. It fails to recognize that deer exercise a population control of their own. If the deer population increases in a given area, does have fewer and fewer fawns and more males than females. This is nature's efficient way of handling the situation.
NEWS
By Staff Report | October 30, 1992
The deer population in the Sweet Air section of Gunpowder Falls State Park far exceeds its normal level, prompting state officials to consider limited deer hunting there.About 185 deer inhabit each square mile in the Sweet Air section, compared with the normal average of 40, a Department of Natural Resources official told about 300 people at a meeting on controlling the deer population.The department is considering allowing "a controlled managed hunt" in January 1993, 1st Sgt. Michael Browning said at the Fallston High School meeting Wednesday night.
NEWS
January 2, 1991
From: Wendy P. Feaga, DVMEllicott CityYour recent article, "Who has chased the deer away?" ("The Scene," by Patrick Hickerson, Dec. 19) is not correct, in my opinion. Asa resident of your neighborhood, Triadelphia Road at Route 144, the deer are plentiful, too plentiful. As I am among at least a dozen cases of Lyme disease in this area, we are intimately aware of the consequences of the large deer population in our neighborhood.I am not advocating the elimination of our deer population, because if we do, the tick is more likely to move to us and our pets, increasing the likelihood of Lyme disease.
NEWS
By Larry Carson and Larry Carson,SUN STAFF | August 24, 1999
Although more than 160 people have applied to Howard County in the past two weeks for a managed deer hunt this fall, county officials have extended the sign-up period through Friday.Philip C. Norman, hunt manager for the county's Department of Recreation and Parks' effort to thin herds in the 1,018-acre Middle Patuxent Environmental Area, said the county wants more hunters to apply because the list is often sharply reduced to provide the safest and most experienced people."There's a number of different community groups and neighborhood associations concerned with the hunt who want to be sure we have well-qualified, safe hunters in there," he said.
NEWS
By Stephanie Desmon and Stephanie Desmon,sun reporter | December 5, 2006
The Rev. Edward G. Robinson's flock was reluctant to try the unusual new offering suddenly filling the freezers at his West Baltimore food pantry, so one Sunday the pastor decided to use his burgeoning culinary skills to whip up a meal with it. "Most of them thought it was roast beef and they enjoyed it and sampled it and even asked for the gravy," he recalled. What they were eating at Agape House was something perhaps out of place at an inner-city soup kitchen but regularly found on the menus of top-tier restaurants: venison.
NEWS
By TED SHELSBY and TED SHELSBY,SUN REPORTER | December 18, 2005
For the first time since Harry S. Truman was president, hunters are taking their weapons into a 1,700-acre section of woodland just outside the little town of Dublin in search of deer. The Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America has opened its Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation in northeastern Harford County to hunters in an attempt to control an exploding deer population. "It's the first time since 1948 that hunting has been allowed," said Reed Blom, director of support services for the Boy Scouts council.