Developer’s Plan to Kill 200 Deer Sparks Uproar
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A builder has provoked emotional protests with a plan to hire a sharpshooter to kill 200 deer to make way for a housing development.
City Council Vice President Geri Edens said at a public hearing Tuesday: “There’s no reason for us to be leaping to a fatal conclusion here.”
But state officials agreed that developer Tom Natelli’s shooting proposal for the 383-acre tract in the Washington suburbs is the most effective.
“Trapping and moving them is not an option because there is no place to move them to,” said Joshua Sandt of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Before the shooting could take place, the plan would have to be approved by the City Council and Sandt’s agency.
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