Heres a win win for you:
The Bow hunters can not hunt on private land without permission. If my family suffers from watching one of these beautiful creatures suffering from an arrow wound, I will hunt down the owner of the property who gave permission and I will sue the individual, company or senator for pain and sufferinging and emotional distress. The place for killing is not family nieborhoods. No matter how you slice the venison, this is a bad thing for Cornwall.

Oh puhleaze - how about if I witness you harassing a land owner who LEGALLY allowed hunting on his property - I'll sue you for MY emotional distress. (See how silly this gets?)

I guess you never watch animal planet or National Geograhic, or Wild Kingdom to learn about how nature handles these sitations?

(wasting my breath - I know)

I plan on suing anyone who cut me off in traffic. I keeps me up at night... all I see are those taillights. So many bright red tailights. They will all pay, and then I'll feel better knowing I have perverted the legal system meant to protect us for my own personal vendetta.
<whimpers quietly to himself>

Feeding the hungry is a good thing.
Hunting on private property w/o the landowner's permission has been my major issue - as last year we had hunters trespass w/ rifle shots on my property. Also, here is one for you, my property consists of federally protected wetlands - and federal laws are broken when one hunts on certain properties. I understand the need for thinning the deer population, right now they are over-populated, but will this get out of hand. Shouldn't there be some type of count as too how many deer should be hunted? Maybe there is and I am not aware? Does the state have some type of deer population count - so hunting can be monitored?
I am an animal lover and still hate the idea of hunting, but I do understand the issues.

Rest assured Cornwall, the deer these hunters kill will not be missed. I cannot tell you the number of times I have seen a deer with a broken leg hobbling around my backyard. I'm going to take a wild guess and assume their injuries are the results of run-ins with cars, but again, just a guess. Furthermore, there are few people I know who haven't hit a deer while driving! You want to talk about your kids being emotionally scarred? Go show them a dear with its broken leg dangling and trying to run away from a barking dog- now that's traumatic. We are becoming overrun with deer, and maybe people living in the village and in more residential areas cannot see this, but trust those of us that live on Mountain and Deer Road, where the hunters want to hunt. Sure we can pull the "but they were here first" card, but let's face it, there is PLENTY of space for deer to roam. Forget the fact that it's basically impossible to keep a decent garden, the deer population is thriving and troublesome. These hunters are not going out into the woods with harpoons, killing hundreds of deer. The deer that they do kill will be used to feed the hungry- how can anybody argue against that? And as for threats of suing land owners- please. What a joke. I'll sue you for crimes against humanity for denying the hungry free food. Be realistic.

I am so glad that some folks responded to the whole lawsuit idea,it brought me back to reality. I was beginning to think I had a chance at suing FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, channel six and the weather channel for the emotional distress that I suffer when I watch the news...

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Last evening, I attended the DEC presentation on deer management at Ulster CCC in Stone Ridge.

Even in a room full of hunters in Ulster County, Orange County was singled out as having one of the most unhealthy overpopulations of deer in the entire State of New York. Not only is that harmful to the forest ecology and hazardous to us in a variety of ways, it simply isn't healthy for the deer.

And the twofold reasons for that overpopulation are that development has expanded and improved the forest-edge habitat in which deer thrive and concomitantly reduced the areas in which they can be hunted. Ergo, big problem with no easy solution.

But hunting is as old as time and certainly part of the answer. Where it is permitted by NYS law, it cannot be prohibited by local government. And, as long as they don't take money for consenting, property owners who permit it are shielded from liability for accidents by a specific state statute.

So "balance" is the key word in this debate. And the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, which manages wildlife statewide, is in the continuing business of striking that balance.