{"id":169236,"date":"2025-08-23T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169236\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:30:12","slug":"new-york-sees-70k-deer-collisions-yearly-dec-urges-population-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169236\/","title":{"rendered":"New York sees 70K deer collisions yearly, DEC urges population control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growing deer population is causing problems across New York, according to the State Department of Environmental Conservation, which released new data on its impact.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say there are about 70,000 deer-vehicle collisions each year and an estimated $59 million in crop damage annually. Other issues include increased tick presence and harm to other species competing for food.<\/p>\n<p>The state accepts hunting licenses and deer management permits in some areas to help control the population.<\/p>\n<p>Animal advocates argue that non-lethal methods like fertility control should be used instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The growing deer population is causing problems across New York, according to the State Department of Environmental Conservation,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,984,96936,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-169236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-deer","10":"tag-deer-hunt","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078327472181159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}