Union County Deer Hunt To Begin January 9 In Scotch Plains

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ — The annual Union County Deer Management Program will begin in January in six County parks and one municipal park.

The program will operate in:

• Watchung Reservation (Berkeley Heights, Mountainside, Scotch Plains, Springfield, Summit),
• Passaic River Park (Summit portion),
• Ash Brook Reservation (Clark, Scotch Plains),
• Lenape Park and Nomahegan Park (Cranford, Kenliworth, Springfield, Union, Westfield),
• Oak Ridge Park (Clark),
• and the Hawk Rise Sanctuary (Linden).

Hunting in all of those parks will occur on Mondays from Jan. 9 to Feb. 6. In the event of a holiday (Jan. 16) or inclement weather on a Monday, the hunting activity will be moved to Wednesday of that week. Inclement weather on Wednesday would push the program to Friday.

Lenape and Nomahegan Parks will be closed on days when hunting is underway. However, no other parks will be closed during the conduct of this program.

For the full Program Guidelines that explain the deer management program visit www.ucnj.org/deer. Anyone with any questions can call Dan Bernier, Division of Park Environmental Services, at 908-789-3682 or email him at [email protected].

All costs for the conduct of this deer management program will be borne by the County of Union and the individual hunters. Some of the venison that will derive from this program will be used to feed the needy and the homeless through the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

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