On campus deer management … with bows and arrows
At Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, they’ve got a deer problem. A herd of almost 200 of the animals had settled in, pooping all over the place (I’m sure) and shedding disease-ridden deer ticks like it was their job.
So for five days over the winter break, while the school was closed, hunters were contracted to thin the herd. Over the course of that week, they shot 62 deer with compound bows, knocking the herd down to a more manageable size.
Predictably, some hippies alumni and students and the Humane Society were upset about the decision to partially cull a population of wild animals on a college campus. But the hunters came in anyways, and from what I understand, every thing’s hunky dory over there now, and they’ll be serving venison in the dining halls for at least the next three weeks.
Feed for College Ave.