08.14.2024 Environment Shelter Island Deer & Tick Committee settles on new mission statement If the Town Board agrees, the Deer & Tick Committee will change its mission statement to be more in line with its actual responsibility. It’s a subject that’s been...
06.05.2024 News Taking precaution against tick bites: Jury is out on increase or status quo Summer is the time to get out and enjoy Shelter Island’s natural beauty, in a garden, on a lawn, on a hike, or just a stroll through one of...
04.08.2024 Environment Shelter Island hunters take fewer deer than previous season: Stepped up effort to do more The number of deer taken during the recreational hunt and those hunting with a Nuisance Wildlife Control License were fewer than they were the season before. Numbers revealed at...
12.11.2023 Environment Shelter Island Deer & Tick Committee gets update: A new hunter’s aid is sought Twenty-seven Island hunters, in the first two months of the recreational hunt — through the end of November — have taken 65 deer. Bay Constable Beau Payne told the...
08.19.2023 Government Latest report from the Shelter Island Deer & Tick Committee A “skyrocketing” increase in ticks isn’t manifesting itself in people developing tick-borne diseases, Deer & Tick Committee Chairman Dr. James Bevilacqua said at the Aug. 16 meeting of the...
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