Hunters in Vermont will have to find new ways to lure deer. A popular trick to find the animals is now banned. It's just one of several changes coming for the sport.
Hunters killed more than 13,000 deer in Vermont last year and a long, harsh winter may have taken even more of the state's herd.
"We suspect there's been some reduction and we've responded as we plan on doing by reducing the number of those antlerless permits out there," said Louis Porter, Vermont Fish and Wildlife commissioner.
Porter says the Fish and Wildlife board has made strategic changes to try to keep the deer healthy.
"One is allowing crossbows for hunters who are 50 and over any time a vertical bow can be used. Another change is lengthening by five days the archery season," said Porter.
Right now Porter says Vermont's five-week archery season is one of the shortest in the country.
But Porter called for the most controversial change-- banning the possession or use of natural deer fluids like urine lures which hunters use as a trick to attract deer.
That's a move supported by Nancy Mathews, the dean of the school of environment and natural resources at the University of Vermont. In a letter to state game officials Mathews said, "Based on my personal research and an understanding of the existing scientific literature, I fully endorse the proposed ban."
Porter agrees with the ban.
"The potential harm is the spread of chronic wasting disease. We're lucky; 23 states and two Canadian provinces now have chronic wasting disease. We're lucky that we don't have any cases of it here in Vermont and we want to keep it that way," said Porter
So hunters will be allowed fewer deer, but will have more ways to hunt them thanks to moves to keep the sport viable for those that love it. The board will reduce the antlerless permits this hunting season by 40 percent to nearly 10,000. The rest of the changes will go into effect in 2016 once the Fish and Wildlife board adopts the final language.
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