In fifteenth year, city bow hunt is meeting goals

Well done report.

This is the most positive I’ve ever felt about mountain biking trails.

Years ago, one of the leaders of the ABA stood before the City Council to rebuff the notion that the “Annual Harvest” had turned into little more than a trophy hunt. As I recall, he scolded the Council for trying to intervene into “their” hunt. “We don’t need the Government telling us what to do.” Never mind that it was that same Government that granted them the original permission.

I grew up hunting, and still harvest game on occasion. As such, I have no problem with a group working to solve the deer problem in our area. But let’s keep it real…the ability to hunt deer in Duluth is exclusively the ABA’s “Hermantown” hunters. Admittedly, they represent a very limited number of non-residents.

I’m sorry the bike trails interfere with your hunt, but I would venture a guess that the number of trail users vastly outnumbers the ABA members.

Oh, and those hungry bears, they help reduce the deer population too.

I don’t recall the year of that council meeting. I would venture at least 10 years ago.
Thanks for clarifying the group’s makeup.

Our neighborhood struggled for years with the deer damage. Several households were feeding deer year-round. The DNR finally shut all of them down and the herd has diminished.

The housing is too dense to allow for the hunt around here, so we have lots of fencing for gardens and landscaped yards.