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Staten island now hunt?

I just read an article where they're trying to get a bow hunt on state land in Staten island. They say there's over 9,000 acres of open space. Will be curious to see how that ends up.

Title of thread is messed up.

Wonder if they'll want proof of sex

Swk lmfao!! So if you give me a buck tag and I shoot a deer with antlers and when I go to gut him i notice he has no nut sack. Do I use a buck or doe tag!! Or maybe instead of having an a antler restriction we can have a nut restriction. Only shoot bucks with no nut sack!!

It would have to be a nut only tag. You better get a really good set binoculars to avoid any game violations. I was watching Bill de Blasio on Hannity last night,......what an idiot. Hannity asked him if every New Yorker should have the same right to protect themselves that he does, with ARMED guards, and he refused to answer if sane, responsible citizens have the right to bear arms. He kept saying it was trick question???? If you're an idiot every question is tricky!!

Guys, they are doing vasectomies, so the deer scrotums are there and working... So your buck wouldnt be ruined anymore than many of you ;)... Just wouldnt be shooting live ammo on date night...

Now they are getting smart. figure out places to bowhunt and let people who want to hunt there do so. Hope it works out.

From the linked article:

"Staten Island officials hired East Coast firm White Buffalo to run the vasectomy program to the tune of $4.1 million over the three-year period. The company estimates they achieved a 15 percent reduction in the original deer population of about 2,000 in 2017.

White Buffalo claims to have sterilized 98 percent of the borough’s buck population and is currently finalizing a new five-year contract with Staten Island leadership. At over $4 million, that costs Staten Island taxpayers several thousand dollars for every male deer castrated.

Cornell University specialist Paul Curtis called White Buffalo’s estimates into question. “I wouldn’t consider that a success because at a 15 to 20 percent drop, you’ll probably see very little difference in deer collisions, no difference in deer damage or foraging on sensitive plant communities, and no difference in Lyme disease rates.”"

Definitely one that Tony D from WB missed. He could have shot those off from 100 yards with an XBOW.

DAMN IT JANET!!!

Well now that they've approved a "now" hunt I suppose it's only a matter of time before there's a "then" hunt.......

https://youtu.be/5drjr9PmTMA

The CT Now hunting season opens Sept 15th, so get out there and practice with your now, because when you need it, your now will be ready. :)

The "N" is right next to the "B" on my keyboard, not sure why they put it there?? Just be glad I didn't type the Staten Island "V"ow hunt was approved.

The V is an evil necessity..lol

White Buffalo was the best thing to happen, preservatives conversation

Preserves

I'm betting that Tony D from WB will be backing off future plans to kill or clip deer,.....based upon all of the money he's pocketing from the poor taxpayers of NY!! Non-Profit???? Really???? I think there are few CEOs out there that are also in same "NON PROFIT" club.

Here are the facts as reported by the NY Post: They’re bagging big bucks in Staten Island – and some deer, too.

The wildlife ecologist running Mayor de Blasio’s deer-vasectomy project raked in more than $603,000 in the first two years of the budget-busting program.

Dr. Anthony DeNicola, founder of the nonprofit White Buffalo Inc., was paid up to $2,500 a day for 250 days of project management and field sterilization work during the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons, according to city budget documents reviewed by The Post.

DeNicola’s wife Vickie was a staff member during the project’s first season, shooting bucks with tranquilizer guns and wrangling the dazed animals, the Staten Island Advance reported. That role paid $1,600 a day for 150 days of work – a total of $240,000 for a job that typically pays just $29,968 a year, according to Ziprecruiter.com.

Together, the DeNicolas’ bloated salaries gobbled up to 29 percent of the project’s first-year expenses.

The company flew in veterinarian Dr. Steve Timm from Wisconsin for a 15-day stint in 2016 to train other vets to do the vasectomy procedure at a cost of $26,250, paying him $1,750 a day. That’s about four times the going rate for a wildlife veterinarian, according to Glassdoor.com.

Since then, the project’s vets have been earning between $1,050 and $1,700 daily.

So far the city has given 1,456 randy bucks the snip at a cost of $2,652.95 per animal under the terms of White Buffalo’s no-bid emergency contract.

A second round of budget increases in July brought the total cost of the three-year program to $4.1 million, up from its original budget of $3.3 million — because the contractor found more deer roaming the borough than he’d expected.

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