Essex County Scales Back Annual Deer Hunt
The county's deer management program is less than half last year's sessions; hunting will take place at South Mountain Reservation on Jan. 22, 24 and 29.
The sixth year of Essex County's deer management program —slated to begin Jan. 22 — has been scaled back from previous years, County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. said Tuesday. The program has been reduced from last year's 24 hunting sessions in 12 days to nine sessions in six days. It will run from Jan. 22 to Feb. 7 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also this year, there will be no hunting in Eagle Rock Reservation. "This program, in my mind, is more of a maintenance program each and every year just to maintain what we have," DiVincenzo said. "The numbers speak for themselves." On county roadways, the number of deer carcases removed last year was down to 201, from 363 in 2011. Verona Township Manager Joseph Martin said he thought the deer …
