Former Conservancy Director of Conservation packing out a harvested deer on Catalina Island.

75 Years of Deer Hunting on Catalina Island Hasn’t Worked

In response to the Catalina Island Conservancy’s plan to eradicate the introduced mule deer from the island, many people, most unaware of what efforts have been attempted previously, are demanding that hunting be used to manage the deer population instead. A recent study, ten years in the making, confirms that hunting has not been a…