Deer and bear numbers
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- February
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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)
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
