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“It’s the natural order of things. Any population - with the exception of human beings - should be kept in balance,” said Supervisor Newbill Miller.
And to keep the county’s burgeoning deer population in balance, the Board of Supervisors agreed Monday to petition the Virginia Game Commission for changes in local hunting laws.
Specifically, the Rappahannock supervisors will ask to have the bag limit upped to three deer, one of which must be a doe, and doe hunting allowed throughout the season. (This year, during a season which ran from Nov. 17 to Jan. 5, doe could be taken only during the last 12 hunting days.)
“The only way to control the size of the deer herd is by hunting and hunting doe,” Mr. Miller maintained. “Deer are placid animals at the beginning of the season. Now, boy, they’re moving and really moving.” By allowing doe to be shot at the season’s start, the number of doe harvested will increase substantially, he predicted.
“The people in my area are overwhelmingly against increasing the bag limit to three. In Jackson District, the deer herd is in balance. There is no over-population in Jackson,” countered A1 Henry, Jackson District’s new supervisor, appointed earlier that morning.
“I think it’s interesting that some of the people complaining about the deer are aggressively posting their land against hunting, even running advertisements in the newspaper,” Mr. Henry continued. Orchaiidists who have a problem with deer damage can get extra tickets from the game warden to kill the destructive animals, he said. That way, the problem can be taken care of where the ptablem exists, instead of penalizing 4he entire county, Mr. Henry added, suggesting that current game laws be used to combat overpopulation in scattered pockets.
“The existing laws haven’t alleviated the problem,” Supervisor Miller replied.
Supervisor Charles Estes, a former orchardist who gave up the business after fighting a losing battle to save his apple trees near Shenandoah National Park from deer, pointed to problems with the “ticket” approach recommended by Mr. Henry. “I didn’t want to shoot .the deer and leave them lay ... I could have gotten tickets from the game warden, I could have slaughtered a whole herd. But what would I do with them then?” Mr. Estes
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