Deer Management Committee
The Committee was organized by Darien’s First Selectman in 1997. They continually study, consider actions, and publicize ways to deal with the with the deer population, all in the interests of public health, safety and regaining environmental balance in our fine community.
Members
- Kent Haydock, Chair
- Frank Rosenberry, Vice Chair
- Beth Drewes
- Jerry Goersch
- Don Miller
- Linda Verbeck
- Brooks Chamberlin
- Peggy Peoples
- Rick Littlefield
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Mounting Deer Concerns (updated September 2003)
Hunting & Documented Hunters, October 2006
Report on Plan to Extend Deer Control Activity
Deer Prudence Article (DNR, 11/23/05)
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For complete deer management information collected by the FAIRFIELD COUNTY MUNICIPAL DEER MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE, go to www.deeralliance.com
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Archers are trained to shoot down from high tree stands, preferably before the sun is up, and many prefer land with some tree cover. You may set hunting limits. A local authority states that no one in the entire area has ever been struck by a stray arrow. Hunters can arrange to have their game butchered for local homeless shelters, i.e. through Hunters for the Hungry.
Deer-vehicle collisions do indeed, represent very serious public hazards with 565 road-killed deer carcasses found on Fairfield-County roads and reported to police in one recent year. Collisions with deer cause over $2,200 damage per vehicle, and local news items report human fatalities triggered by deer. The CT Department of Environmental Protection believes that a great many additional accidents go uncounted.
Meanwhile, a record 4,631 cases of the crippling, deer-borne Lyme disease were diagnosed in the state in 2002, about one-third of them in Fairfield County. Major damage to local ecology from heavy, year-around foraging presents yet another special problem for our stressed, “non-firearm” county. Now, the excessive deer population has encouraged predatory coyotes into our area, further compounding concerns.