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Article: Deer hunting on Anne Arundel County land in sights
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- November 15, 2008
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County leaders cleared the path for hunting on county-owned land
last week, but will keep the arrows quivered until next season.
The program to thin an expanding deer population that munches
through foliage and bounds onto roadways won't be ready for months,
officials said, despite enthusiasm from the hunting community.
"I've already got three calls from hunters ready to go," said
Mark Garrity, a county parks administrator.
Anne Arundel will join other central Maryland counties that use
volunteer hunters to rid park land of white-tailed deer, but only
after officials form a "deer management work group" to lay out the
details of managed hunts.
Mr. Garrity and others say hunting is not the ...