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Jurisdictions struggle over how many deer <br />are enough <br />Sickly animals raise questions about culling as DNR studies issue. <br />By David Peterson <br />Star Tribune <br />May 15, 2017 — 12:46am <br />Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune <br />Some experts have said that there are too many deer in some jurisdictions. <br />An abundance of sickly and undernourished deer in the metro area is raising questions about <br />whether cities are doing enough to keep them healthy by keeping their numbers down. <br />“Ramsey County should have 300 to 400 deer, not the 1,200 to 1,500 that it has,” said John <br />Moriarty, senior wildlife manager at Three Rivers Park District, who lives near Roseville’s deer <br />cull and sees deer often in his backyard. “Ramsey has a lot more deer than \[it\] should.” <br />Under pressure from an outside audit that found shortcomings in the agency’s approach to deer, <br />the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is devising its first-ever comprehensive <br />plan to manage the state’s entire deer herd, beyond overseeing hunting. <br />And Topic A — in fact, a topic to be taken up this week at a meeting in Sauk Rapids — is the <br />health of the deer. <br />The DNR planning process, designed to yield a proposal toward the end of this year, is expected <br />to ponder whether the state should take a more proactive role in steering the situation rather than <br />letting often ill-informed local elected officials decide. <br />“It’s challenging,” Moriarty said, “when one city will \[follow expert advice on culling deer\] and <br />another won’t. Because the deer don’t care which side of the road they’re on.” <br />“The DNR needs more boots on the ground to be doing fieldwork,” said Valerie Bombach, <br />project manager for the state Office of the Legislative Auditor. “Some areas of the state could <br />sustain more deer and \[in\] others, some say there are way too many deer. We didn’t see them <br />connecting all the pieces. They should sample deer for signs of poor health. Other states do that.” <br />Feeding ban considered <br />The citizens of Roseville were warned last winter that the sound of muffled gunshots might <br />linger for weeks as sharpshooters thinned out the city’s deer. It turned out that 20 animals were <br />killed at baiting sites on a single evening. <br /> <br />
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