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Grand Island CAB asks town to invite DEC biologist to workshop on rising deer concerns

Grand Island Conservation Advisory Board · October 24, 2025
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The Grand Island Conservation Advisory Board voted Oct. 23 to recommend the town board invite a DEC big-game biologist to a workshop to explain deer-management options and implications for the island.

The Grand Island Conservation Advisory Board voted Oct. 23 to advise the town board to invite New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) big-game biologist Ryan Rockefeller to a town board workshop to present options for controlling a rising white-tailed deer population.

Board members described multiple indicators of an increasing deer presence, including more frequent deer-vehicle collisions reported in regional call-for-service records and observed deer near town roads and…

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