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11.26.2024 News

Deer strikes spike as days get shorter

It’s that time of year again — high season for deer-car collisions. This fall, Southold Highway Dept. workers are picking up an average of one dead deer a day,...

12.12.2023 News

Gov. Hochul signs deer management bill for Southold; goes into effect Jan. 1

State and local experts agree on one critical point about the white-tailed deer population in Southold Town: There are far too many of them. Now, help is on the...

11.30.2023 News

In Orient, a deer hunter films a video of a new North Fork resident: a coyote

On October 19, a deer hunter sitting in a tree stand on a tract of farmland in Orient watched as what looked like someone’s dog approached his stand. The...

04.21.2023 Editorials

Editorial: Senate Bill 4804 would help control local deer herd

Estimates vary of the numbers of white-tailed deer in Riverhead and Southold towns, but a good guess from people who study the issue is approximately 7,000. Perhaps 3,000 of...

12.18.2022 Opinion

Editorial: Size of the deer herd on North Fork is at crisis level

By some estimates, the white-tailed deer herd in Southold alone is between 5,000 and 7,000. Riverhead’s herd is probably in the same range. Recreational hunters, and those hunting with...

12.13.2022 Top News

Speakers at civic association forum characterize the deer population as an enormous crisis

Calling the overpopulation of deer in Southold a worsening crisis, speakers at Saturday’s meeting of the Southold Peconic Civic Association sounded the alarm that measures must be taken immediately...

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