When two of Dominick Stanzione’s friends were diagnosed with serious tick-borne illnesses eight months ago, controlling the deer population took on a new level of significance and emergency for the East Hampton Town councilman.
To that end, on Tuesday, Mr. Stanzione unveiled a draft version of a deer management plan to the Town Board. The plan recommends a number of initiatives to curb the deer population. The main points include culling the herds—or hiring a professional deer removal organization to kill off deer—getting an accurate survey of the number of deer in the town, increasing access to deer hunters and working across state, county and town lines to come up with an effective deer management plan for lands owned by multiple jurisdictions.
“I think that we’re at the nexus point of a... more
To that end, on Tuesday, Mr. Stanzione unveiled a draft version of a deer management plan to the Town Board. The plan recommends a number of initiatives to curb the deer population. The main points include culling the herds—or hiring a professional deer removal organization to kill off deer—getting an accurate survey of the number of deer in the town, increasing access to deer hunters and working across state, county and town lines to come up with an effective deer management plan for lands owned by multiple jurisdictions.
“I think that we’re at the nexus point of a... more



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Mr. Stanzione now proposes that ANOTHER federal agency (Dept. of Agriculture) should meddle with East End affairs!
How many petty bureaucrats from Washington DC do we need running things here for the next 20-30 years?
His current drive to get FAA funding (for deer fencing) BEGS to have local control of the airport be flushed down the terlit like a bad ...more bowel movement.
Enough DOMination for private interests IMO.
Oh deer.
FIDDLE FIDDLE FIDDLE