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Deer 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/
Saturday, Sept. 30, marks the beginning of archery deer hunting season in Pennsylvania, along with the City of Pittsburgh’s pilot Deer Management Program. City Council recently approved an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help cull a growing deer population in two city parks – Frick Park and Riverview Park. Studies have shown there are at least 500 deer in Frick Park alone.
Pittsburgh’s 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.
Pittsburgh’s 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.
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It's definitely a safer sport than shotgun hunting.
... and the deer are mostly a nuisance and a safety hazard.
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.