Follow the rules to keep the deer herd healthy

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is directing hunters to follow the regulation designed to keep Vermont deer healthy by banning the use of anydeerlurecontainingnaturaldeer urine or other deer bodily fluids. Such lures can carry the infectious agent of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is 100% fatal to deer, elk and moose. It causes irreversible population declines and has been impossible to eliminate once it becomes established in a population. Luckily it has not yet been detected in V … (read more)

Dates set for bow-hunting deer season

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s Archery Deer Season runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 13 and Nov. 30 to Dec. 15 this year.  Each hunter may take up to four deer in Vermont’s two-part archery season if they do not shoot any deer in the other deer seasons. The purchase of an … (read more)

Don’t touch deer fawns

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says deer fawns are being born this time of year and asks that people avoid disturbing or picking them up. Most deer fawns are born in late May and the first and second weeks of June, according to Verm … (read more)

Public deer hearings on tap

MONTPELIER — Hunters, landowners and anyone else interested in deer and moose should plan on attending the Vermont Fish and Wildlife public hearings being held in March. The hearings will include results of Vermont’s 2019 deer seasons and prospects for hu … (read more)

Hunters happy with muzzleloader season

ADDISON COUNTY — December’s combined muzzleloader and archery season for deer proved to be the second-best for Addison County in the past seven years, with 330 deer weighed at the county’s seven wildlife reporting stations.  That nine-day season that ende … (read more)

Last call for deer in 2019

MONTPELIER — Vermont’s hunters this weekend get one final chance for a deer this year during the muzzleloader deer season and the second part of the archery deer season. The two seasons run at the same time — Dec. 7-15.  A muzzleloader hunter may take one … (read more)

More bow hunters successful in November

ADDISON COUNTY — Due to an apparent computer glitch at New Haven wildlife reporting station Rack ’N Reel, more than two-dozen successful bow hunters were not initially reported to the Addison Independent in early November. The exclusions do not appear to … (read more)

Youth hunters end a fruitful weekend

ADDISON COUNTY — A bountiful Youth Hunting Weekend on Nov. 9 and 10 left many young hunters and their families with smiles on their faces and gave hope to area hunters of all ages heading into the 16-day rifle season that started this past Saturday. In al … (read more)

Video shows how to dress a deer correctly

MONTPELIER — Making the most of the meals provided by deer taken in hunting seasons starts with processing them quickly and correctly, which is why the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has three online videos demonstrating how to process deer. Finding … (read more)

Young hunters asked to report their deer

MONTPELIER — With Vermont’s youth deer hunting weekend just around the corner, on Nov. 10 and 11, young hunters are encouraged to take to the field to hone their skills and to also help Fish and Wildlife biologists by reporting their deer at one of 23 bio … (read more)

Vermont State Police Log: Motorcycle crashes into deer in Ripton

ADDISON COUNTY — On the morning of July 4 Vermont State Police responded to a report of a motorcycle hitting a deer on Lincoln Road in Ripton. Police report that sometime before 11:20 a.m. this past Thursday, Robert Wesley, 54, of Ripton was driving a 201 … (read more)

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