Deer and bear numbers

February

Deer up. Black bears up. That’s the news from the state today on harvests of both those animals last year by hunters across New York.

Hunters took about 16 percent more deer last year than in 2006. In addition, researchers reported finding no cases of chronic wasting disease after testing about 7,500 deer.

As for bears, hunters took 1,117 last year compared to 796 in 2006.

“Overall, bear harvest statewide has steadily increased over the last two decades in correlation with a continuous rise in the bear population,” the DEC said.

Don’t forget about tonight’s black bear management seminar that Laura recently wrote about.

(Photo courtesy of TJN photographer Ricky Flores)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 3:01 pm by Mike Risinit.
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