SUN JOURNAL • August 12, 2020
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Advisory Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a record number of any-deer permits in an effort to cull the state’s growing deer population. State biologists recommended increasing by 100 the 109,890 they proposed in May – making the 109,990 approved by the council’s 6-0 vote the first time the permits have topped 90,000. State biologists say the hefty boost in permits is needed to reach the state’s doe-harvest goal of 13,000 to reduce the state’s white-tailed deer population of nearly 300,000.