OCTOBER 26, 2015 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY MARINA VILLENEUVE
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
SADDLE RIVER — A newly introduced ordinance would lift the borough’s ban on hunting and, if adopted, would let officials move forward with plans to allow limited bow hunting of deer.
The measure, introduced last week, came after borough officials and residents spent the last year discussing what to do with what the local Board of Health has deemed a public health risk: the borough’s growing deer population. At recent public forums on the issue, members of a borough study committee discussed allowing limited bow hunting of deer on property with landowners’ written, prior permission.
“I think deer impose a high risk and health hazard, and hunting is the only way we have of dealing with that,” Board of Health President Duncan Carpenter said in an interview Friday.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/saddle-river-weighs-lifting-hunting-ban-1.1441287
Bow hunting is inhumane and a public menace. This is suburbia. Not the forest. Someone is going to get hurt I guarantee it. Public officials need to deal with the problem and not pass it off to homeowners who for the most part are not experienced deer killers.