NJ Hunt Planned to Thin Numbers of Deer

Sharpshooters will take to the trees next week in northern New Jersey's South Mountain Reservation to deal with a problem that has become the scourge of many suburban communities: too many deer.

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After hearing passionate testimony from differing views on the annual county-run deer hunt in South Mountain Reservation, Maplewood's Township Committee voted to go forward with the deer hunt.

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Essex County sheriff's officers have stepped up patrols in the South Mountain Reservation after the discovery of animal carcasses possibly used in a religious rite, the second such find in a week.

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For a second year in a row, sharpshooters will help thin the deer population in a 2,000-acre northern New Jersey land preserve. Last spring, volunteer marksmen in Essex County killed 213 of an estimated 300 to 400 white-tail deer in the South Mountain Reservation.

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The hunters gathered on Thursday at the glow of dawn on the icy slopes of South Mountain Reservation in Essex County. By sunrise, the thermometer had risen to 27 degrees and they were 30 feet up in tree stands, camouflaged and waiting.

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Sharpshooters killed 20 deer during the fourth day of the Essex County-sponsored deer hunt in South Mountain Reservation today, bringing the deer-culling total to 139, officials said.

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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. A bear wandered into a backyard in this North Jersey suburb Sunday morning and eluded state and local authorities for several hours by shimmying up a high tree.

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More than 100 men have been charged with lewdness or sexual activity in South Mountain Reservation as part of a 15-month crackdown on gay trysts in the park, authorities said yesterday.

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Maplewood crime scene yields no clues about victim's identity

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