More than 70,000 New Yorkers suffer injuries or financial hardships after their vehicles hit deer on roads each year, with an average repair bill of $4,000. Another 7,000 residents fall seriously ...

Hunters in NY killed an estimated 231,961 deer during the 2022 hunting seasons, a 10% increase from the prior year. From 2000 to 2010, the annual average deer harvest totaled about 237,000, up ...

More than 70,000 New Yorkers suffer injuries or financial hardships after their vehicles hit deer on roads each year, with an average repair bill of $4,000. Another 7,000 residents fall seriously ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has a message for Suffolk County deer hunters: report your harvest. The DEC has two tips for hunters to help manage the white tailed ...

To decrease deer population, the department issues more antlerless tags or deer management permits (DMPs). Recently, the DEC issued fewer or the same number of DMPs to large portions of the state.

More than 5,000 samples were collected from white-tailed deer during the hunting seasons (Sept. to Dec.) in 2020 and 2021 in an effort to take a snapshot of transmission trends.

The managing of the deer population in the area is also to reduce car accidents and protect vegetation on people's property. In 2024, 53 deer were removed from the Town of Manlius.

The Central New York deer population is on the rise. But a local tick expert says deer are not the only animals to be worried about getting the disease from.