Deer Hunting on State Land in Central California Allowed for First Time in Decades

A handful of hunters will be allowed to bag a deer in Central California this year, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced July 9. Sections of the Los Baños and North Grasslands wildlife areas were opened for deer hunting for the first time since the department started regulating hunting in 1945 after the deer population in the area grew to a huntable number, according to the department’s spokeswoman Krysten Kellum. The California Fish and Game Commission, a five-member board that regulates recreational, commercial, scientific, and educational uses of state-managed land, approved a department request to have deer added as a harvestable species on the wildlife areas. The change was put into place July 1, Ms. Kellum told The Epoch Times in an email....