An urban deer hunt has become a critical source of nourishment for local food pantries and community kitchens.

An urban deer hunt has become a critical source of nourishment for local food pantries and community kitchens.
In the world of whitetail population management, the work of Dr. Tony DeNicola falls somewhere between scientific research and anti-hunting ethos. Dr. DeNicola is founder and president of White Buffalo Inc., a Connecticut-based non-profit that helps urban communities deal with their deer overpopulation problems (whitebuffaloinc.com). One of the most controversial methods White Buffalo uses is […]
A couple of years ago I started a file to keep up with different urban deer problems and how cities were dealing with the situations. The file grew to an enormous length. Cities great and small throughout the eastern half of the United States have problems with overpopulations of white-tailed deer. Even tiny Decorah, Iowa, in […]
Urban deer hunting programs are designed to offer bowhunters the opportunity to help communities with deer overpopuation problems in controlled settings and more cities are getting on board with these outstanding projects. One is getting ready for its second year and officials and hunters couldn’t be happier. Even residents — most of them, other than […]
An urban bowhunting program to help remove deer from Mentor city areas has some officials in Ohio breathing a sigh of relief. The Mentor City Council approved the program last autumn, setting stringent guidelines for hunters after looking at similar programs in other cities. With several weeks left in the season, which ends Feb. 3, […]