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Related: About this forumDeer Bowhunters Allowed in Pittsburgh Two City Parks Starting Saturday
Pittsburgh Magazine link: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/deer-bowhunters-to-put-skills-to-the-test-in-two-city-parks-starting-saturday/
Pittsburghs exploding white-tailed deer population is spreading ticks and Lyme disease, becoming traffic hazards and devouring the gardens of homeowners who live near the parks.
Thirty Allegheny County archers were chosen last week from among hundreds of applicants, following a tough accuracy test.
City officials have assigned each hunter to a designated area in each park. They are required to kill a doe first and donate the meat to a local food bank program, such as Hunters Sharing the Harvest. Hunters are then able to bag as many white-tailed deer as they have tags for. Deer are not to be cleaned inside park limits.
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This is GREAT news for me. I live a couple of blocks from Riverview Park on the upper Northside and we've been overrun with deer for the past several years. I can't even grow my daylilies anymore because the deer just chomp them down to stumps. It's their free salad bar every night.
For as long as I can remember there's been no deer hunting allowed within the city limits anywhere in Pennsylvania. City and state parks have always been off limits for deer hunting, only in carefully controlled state gamelands and private property that has no "Posted" signs. This will bring in a new era, I hope.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,821 posts)jimfields33
(15,857 posts)underpants
(182,848 posts)Thats a lot of meat for food programs.
FakeNoose
(32,669 posts)Karadeniz
(22,543 posts)FakeNoose
(32,669 posts)It's definitely a safer sport than shotgun hunting.
but it's safer than having someone shooting off a shotgun inside of a city park. I remember seeing deer just yards away from Forbes Avenue near CMU, an accident waiting to happen.
FakeNoose
(32,669 posts)... and the deer are mostly a nuisance and a safety hazard.
Wonder Why
(3,224 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,771 posts)sl8
(13,834 posts)It's a photo of Japanese sika deer
FakeNoose
(32,669 posts)This article is published in Pittsburgh Magazine, and I also read about it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. So the story is real and it's happening today. By the way I have deer in my yard and down my back hill almost every day.
sl8
(13,834 posts)I'm not sure why you took it that way.
I just thought it was a little odd, or a little lazy, of the paper to use a photo of an Asian deer species rather than a photo of whitetails. It's not like pictures of whitetails are hard to find.