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FROM Brian Marchhauser, Yorktown News
February 13, 2014
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Teatown Lake Reservation is moving ahead with a planned deer cull on its
875- acre preserve after a New York Supreme Court judge denied last week a
request by neighbors to block the shooting.
A special permit granted in December 2013 allows Teatown to kill up to 75
deer at various locations on its nature preserve. The deer will be killed
using “sharpshooters” from the United States Department of Agriculture.
In a letter sent to neighbors on Feb. 7, the
morning of the judge’s decision, Teatown Executive Director Kevin Carter
wrote that, “Teatown will commence the deer culling
this evening,” and that the shooting would take place over four to six
nights. All shooting must occur before Feb. 28, according to
the permit. “This decision was not easy or pleasant
for Teatown,” Carter said in a letter to Yorktown News. “We understand
that there are some who will be dismayed by this course of action. To those
we would say, as difficult as it may seem, it is a necessary part of our
responsibility to protect the biodiversity of our forest.”
The nonprofit preserve—situated in Ossining, Yorktown and Cortlandt
Manor—has said the current size of the deer herd is threat- ening the health
of vegetation and wildlife.
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