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The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society’s Community Deer Cooler, maintained to reduce the Island’s deer population, stored a record 90 deer this year. The program has been in place since 2019, and the 90 deer is up from 79 in 2022. Brian Athearn, a manager at MV Hunt Club, credits the good 2023 season in part […]
Martha’s Vineyard has a non-migratory Canada geese problem. Farmers say that flocks can destroy newly planted crops in a short period of time; the birds can also yank up fresh, native vegetation by the roots; athletes and golf clubs complain about the geese droppings dotting their fields; homeowners deal with the geese littering their yards. […]
Disease prevention, deer population reduction focus of Island tick forum mvtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mvtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Every spring on the Martha’s Vineyard, Islanders seem to say: “It’s the worst tick season there’s ever been.” But are the ticks actually worse this year? Patrick Roden-Reynolds, of the MV Tick Program, couldn’t definitively say if there are truly more ticks in 2023 compared to other years, but he has seen a dramatic increase […]