Deer hunt is still on
Don’t be tempted to file this under the category of “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”
David Carroll, the county’s environmental czar, says deer hunting is still going to happen in the area around the Loch Raven Reservoir this fall despite some nonspecific rumblings to the contrary from those oppose the idea.
The rumors “are rife with inaccuracies,” said Carroll, whose formal title is director of sustainability.
And the hunt is still on?
“Well, certainly bowhunting, that’s our plan,” he said.
Carroll said that county and city officials are still ironing out details of the hunting plan first reported by Patuxent Publishing (read the story here). Officials plan to hold public meetings on the plan but those have not been scheduled.
Initially, the idea was to hold those meetings in the first two weeks of August, but Carroll said it is more likely any such meeting will happen in the third or fourth week of August.
Carroll also said officials are likely to meet separately with an unspecified number of community leaders to discuss the plan.
“We want to have a nonyelling and nonscreaming meeting to get some facts out there,” Carroll said.