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Originally Posted by SAB1
.... Archery happens to be a very successful method of removing deer from the population...... Look what archery has done for Long Island in Moultonboro. Archery is a very effective management tool for managing the deer harvest.
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The bow hunters group doing most of the archery in the fall on Long Island don't even call it "hunting." It is a "deer reduction" effort. Their group uses tree stands, shoots down at the deer at close range, and now (I'm told) use a line paying out from a reel, as with fishing with a bow, so as to be able to track a deer that doesn't drop fairly quickly. Before the program began, the deer overpopulation were eating all the new low growth, effectively preventing the natural process of new growth replacing mature trees as they age and die off. The deer seen now are much more healthy looking, compared with the scrawny ones seen before the program began.