National Park Service to use sharpshooters to kill deer in DC park

Published March 28, 2013

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The National Park Service is ready to start using sharpshooters to kill deer in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

The park service says it will begin killing deer Wednesday night. Sharpshooters will work in the overnight hours from late Wednesday through early Saturday morning.

The effort to reduce the deer population in the park was delayed after an animal rights group filed a lawsuit to prevent the killings. A judge ruled in favor of the park service earlier this month.

The park service considered several options but ultimately decided the deer population needed to be reduced to protect plant and animal habitat. The park has more than 70 deer per square mile, and the plan is to reduce that number to no more than 20 per square mile.

Film at 11..... 🤔

They're prolly gonna use assault rifles

They should get with groups like the Boy Scouts or Wheeling Sportsman or Wounded Warriors and let them take care of the hunt.

I bet they go in at night with night vision optics and clean house .Not very sporting. Like shooting fish in a barrel - and they wonder why real hunters get a bad reputation.

I wonder if the National Park Service will disclose what type of weapons will be used.... 🤔

I normally do catch & release.... 😟

no traps tho... 🤐

I think we should all send hats with deer antlers on them to each of our distinguished members of Congress and then plant blank checks throughout the park.

+1

Rugby players most likely. [sarcasm]

They did the same here in a local town. No hunting allowed, but they let trained off duty cops go in to thin the heard.....

Well that was until one of the trained marksman got a little excited and put two rounds through the wall of a house. They have decided to go back to thinning with cars.

It was petitioned to the town over and over to let archery hunters go in. The anti's painted this picture to the clueless homeowners of deer running down the streets with arrow sticking out of them bleeding, running into traffic, dying in their backyard you name it.

They usually donate the meat to a local charity or food pantry. It normally doesn't go to waste. But they do loose money for not selling licenses.

A similar situation happens out here but with mountain lions. They've brought down 5 now behind a friends ranch.