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Article: N.H. island mulls trim of deer herd
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 1996
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MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H. -- Long Island landowners and state fish and
game officials will decide this summer how to trim a herd of about
100 starving deer on the island, but no action on the decision is
anticipated for months.
Residents have begged for relief from the overpopulated deer herd
on the island, which is connected by bridge to the Moultonborough
Neck peninsula.
Starving deer, standing on their hind legs to reach green boughs,
are destroying the island habitat, residents say.
Suggestions to trim the herd have ranged from feeding the deer
contraceptives to holding a ...