Countywide : Board Asks Cut in Season for Hunting Tenaja Deer
The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday voted to ask the state Fish and Game Commission to cut the hunting season for Tenaja antlerless deer from 30 days a year to two.
The unanimous vote was an effort to protect the dwindling deer herd in the Cleveland National Forest area of the county.
Tom Elsberg, a taxidermist and president of the Southern California Deer Hunters Assn., said a moratorium on deer hunting was a better solution than simply reducing the season.
“The deer herd is so low now that I can’t see how reducing doe hunts is going to help,” Elsberg told the board. He said statistics show that the bulk of deer kills usually occur on the first two days of the season.
But Board Chairman Thomas F. Riley said the request was a logical step in helping to curb the deer herd problem. The request does not apply to bucks.
The board also will ask for a limit of 250 hunting permits.
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