Saturday, September 15, 2012
Hilltop and South Mountain Conservancies are petitioning Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. to continue the upcoming deer hunt.
The Hilltop and South Mountain Conservancies have started a petition to be sent to Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. regarding the possibility of canceling the county deer hunt. As of now the hunt has not been canceled and no official decision has been made yet, said County Public Information Director Anthony Puglisi in a phone interview. The hunting season typically occurs in January and February he said. A total of 274 deer were removed from South Mountain, Hilltop and Eagle Rock Reservations during the 2012 Essex County Deer Management Program, said DiVincenzo in a written statement. This was the fifth year that the program has been conducted. According to a Star-Ledger report, the deer population in Essex County has been…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Mulch in Essex County's compost site caught fire in the dry heat Monday night.
With temperatures above 90 degrees Monday, New Jersey was on high alert for fires and about 8 p.m. the Millburn Fire Department got a call a fire had erupted in the Essex County mulch yard on the South Mountain reservation. Firefighters got to the South Mountain Compost Site off South Orange Avenue quickly and already part of the football field sized pile of mulch was engulfed in flames, Battalion Chief Robert Echavarria said. “There were flames 50 feet high and 100 feet wide,” Echavarria said, adding firefighters were quickly able to get the flames under control, but had to keep digging further for a while. “The mulch is so dry and the piles are so huge, there was a lot of it hidden underneath.” The company the county contracts with to …
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
As the annual deer management program reaches the midway point, we'd like to know your thoughts.
Essex County is midway through its annual winter deer hunt that started on Jan. 17 in the hopes of curbing the whitetail deer population. Since 2008, volunteer sharpshooters have stationed themselves at platforms in county reservations to cull deer. Last year, the county reported that the efforts had curbed 1,089 deer since the program's beginning. In 2010, the deer hunt spread to three reservations - South Mountain, Eagle Rock and Hilltop. In addition, the county has installed traffic deflectors and started replanting the undergrowth in some of the reservations as additional methods to curb deer. This year's hunt will finish on Feb. 23. Even after four years, some people object to the hunt and say it's inhumane and ineffective. We'd like …
Alexander Davis
8:24 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The most important reason to remove deer is to protect our health. The Lyme epidemic is unnecessary and should have ended years ago. By 2003 it was clear that Monhegan Island Maine had ended its Lyme epidemic by removing the deer. The tick life cycle had been disrupted and ticks could no longer breed on the island. As host to 95% of egg-laying adult ticks, the deer is key to the ticks' … more ›