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Tega Cay releases update on efforts to control deer population

Tega Cay releases update on efforts to control deer population Leaders in Tega Cay have released more information about how their efforts to control the deer population in Tega Cay are going. The city said it culled more than 30 deer over a two-week period. In January, South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources approved a […]

British Columbia bids to stop spread of fatal ‘zombie deer disease’

The Canadian province of British Columbia has released a strategy to combat the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) as the virus continues to move across North America. Officials in the westernmost province this week ordered the testing of any road-killed deer, moose, elk and caribou after two cases were confirmed at the end of […]

Mississippi deer hunter harvests incredible double-tined buck

It was a buck like he’d never seen. A 15-point with double rows of tines, and the symmetry is remarkable. So much so, Johnathan Fortenberry of Magnolia thought someone was playing a joke on him. However, it wasn’t a joke and Mississippi’s worst weather of the year so far combined with determination put Fortenberry in […]

Deer runs onto road and a driver is killed, South Carolina Highway Patrol says

A person was killed when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a deer on a South Carolina road, officials said. The crash happened Tuesday at about 4 a.m. in Spartanburg County, according to Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway of the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office identified 49-year-old Pacolet resident Alberry Fleming […]

Man killed in deer blind after police chase

Jan. 30—KALKASKA — A 35-year-old Kalkaska man was killed in a deer blind after an alleged domestic assault and a chase by Michigan State Police, state police said. In a statement released Monday, police did not identify the man, but said he was killed after “a confrontation occurred and troopers fired at the suspect inside […]

2 men given hunting suspensions and fines after DNA links them to wasted deer

Two Manitoba men were handed 2-year hunting suspensions and fines totalling $13,980 in Swift Current provincial court after DNA testing connected them to a headless deer corpse. Shaunavon conservation officers received a tip, including a vehicle description, about Manitoba residents unlawfully hunting south of Cadillac, about 65 kilometres south of Swift Current, according to a news […]