With deer season over, maybe this young fellow felt safe to wander through our back yard. Actually, the hunting season is not what deer in North Albany generally have to worry much about.
Cities now can fight urban deer
Written July 16th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
Albany may not have a problem with too many deer, but some Oregon cities apparently do. To help them, the legislature passed Senate Bill 373, which calls for a way to get rid of some of those urban deer.
Bills: Deer control and roadkills
Written May 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
This little doe and her family wander past my window outside of Albany on most days, and seeing them reminds me of one legislator’s attempt to solve a couple of problems: Too many deer in some cities, and deer killed in traffic being left on the roads.
Bill would allow killing of ‘urban deer’
Written February 20th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
The black-tailed deer family that crosses our yard most days was coming through again Monday just as I learned about Oregon Senate Bill 373, a proposal for a program to rid participating cities of “urban deer” by killing them and giving the meat to food banks.
The deer and us
Written June 5th, 2013 by
A book reviewer in the Wall Street Journal wrote that in this country it’s about as hard to see a deer as it is to buy gas. He had recently seen one, a deer that is, at the service station in his little town. The review was about “Deerland,” by Al Cambronne and published by […]
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It was a wet, dark and stormy day
Energy and wildlife — those were two of the unrelated topics that occupied me this December morning, for a while anyway. Let me explain.
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