Deer Management Committee to hold public input session | Community Spirit

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The Deer Management Committee will hold a public input session on Feb. 28.

The committee says there will be no formal presentation or discussion, the meeting is exclusively an opportunity for the public to comment on deer management in the city of Cape Girardeau.

They say each speaker will be given up to three minutes. Anyone who cannot attend the meeting can send in their comments through an online form, available by clicking here.

The session will be at 6 p.m. at the Osage Center, Room 2AB.

For more information about the committee, you can click here.

Another meeting will be at the Cape Girardeau Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 16. This meeting will be hosted by the group, Cape Friends of Wildlife, who oppose the plan for an urban deer kill in city limits. The group will show a layout of areas where hunting could take place.

The Missouri Department of Conservation presented the idea of bow hunting with a special permit to help control the overgrown deer population to a deer management committee. The conservation department is working to get a count of the deer population in Cape Girardeau city limits.

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