re: #261 SanFranciscoZionist

I think the hunters are permitted to stock up the freezer. But the deer are county property, and they use most of the meat to feed the hungry.

I think this is what you’re referring to:

From 1976 to 1994, park rangers shot roughly 3,000 nonnative deer in Point Reyes. The Park Service had long maintained that they had donated 90 percent of the carcasses to a homeless shelter in San Francisco, but in 1992 the local newspaper invoked the Freedom of Information Act to show that less than a third of the deer meat actually reached the hungry. The majority of the deer were left to rot where they were shot. Public outcry ensued, and when the new park superintendent took over in 1994, he stopped the culling until an appropriate plan could be formed based on a full environmental impact study. After more than a decade of unchecked population growth, the park this past fall announced the current eradication plan.

I’m pretty sure private hunters are always allowed to keep all the meat they’ve hunted. At least I’ve never heard of an enforced donation policy. After all, getting wild, natural food is really the legitimate motive for hunting in the first place, take that away and you’re sending people out who just want to kill something.