Legislators urged to extend deer-hunting season
The commonly accepted view of deer as friendly, graceful and peaceful animals is being challenged this week. The reason: Lyme disease.
In an effort to control the risk of Lyme disease — the tick-borne infectious agent that is increasingly being transmitted by Connecticut’s deer population — Georgina Scholl, research chair of the Fairfield County Municipal Deer Management Alliance, is lobbying the state to ease regulations on deer hunting. Scholl’s proposal, which was presented to Gov. M. Jodi Rell this week, urges legislators to lengthen the hunting season beyond mid-September, to...
It's sad that even with an important health issue, the hunters are willing to push their agenda to kill more animals, rather than promote known methods of reducing Lyme Disease or support new, promising and realistic alternatives to the hunters' unproven method of killing deer to reduce Lyme Disease.
Finally an astute reporter has delved beneath the surface of the standard "hunting as herd reduction" approach. How interesting that now some scientists from the CT Agriculture Station are saying many of the things that hunting opponents have been saying for years.