A regional deer cull is moving forward in Oakland County as cities work to address the growing deer population, but some residents are organizing to advocate for alternative solutions.
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Controversy growing as more communities consider deer culls
Farmington Hills started working with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in 2015 when they suggested collecting data and researching the issue. Ten years later, they’re implementing what they learned.
“As we did that, we saw an incline in that data with deer vehicle collisions, we had more and more residents calling about concerns about deer,” said Bryan Farmer, Department of Special Services for Farmington Hills.
Deer-car collisions have been on the rise in Oakland County, with more than 2,000 in 2023. Now, the city of Farmington Hills is putting that research into action, moving forward with plans to use trained USDA sharpshooters in 2026 and public safety archery hunters in 2027 in an annual urban deer cull…