- Deer Fact Sheet (CT DEEP)
Deer Management
- Managing Urban Deer in Connecticut (CT DEEP)
- An Evaluation of Deer Management Options (CT DEEP, New England Chapter of The Wildlife Society and the Northeast Deer Technical Committee)
- Fairfield County Municipal Deer Management Alliance ("Deer Alliance")
- Wildlife Damage Management Series: White-Tailed Deer (Cornell)
Tick-born Illnesses
- Tickborne Illnesses (CDC) - (The tick commonly known as the Deer Tick is also called the Black-Legged Tick).
- American Lyme Disease Foundation
Ecological Impacts
- Impacts of White-Tailed Deer Overabundance in Forest Ecosystems (USDA Forestry)
- White-Tailed Deer Overbrowsing Affects Bird Populations (CT Audubon report - see page 35)
- Letter from Shelton Conservation Commission recommending BOA establish a deer committee
- White-Tailed Deer Impacts and Forest Management (NJ Audubon/NRCS)
- Forest Foods Deer Eat (Michigan DNR) - tree species- favored foods vs starvation foods
Hunting
- Deer Hunting Seasons (CT DEEP) (Shelton is in Zone 11)
- Aquarion lands in Shelton open to hunters (special permit required).
- Economic Impact of Deer in Fairfield County (Deer Alliance)
- Car and Deer Collisions (Insurance Journal)
Landscaping
- Landscaping Plants Rated by Deer Resistance (NJ Ag Experiment Station)
Some Local Conservation Organizations with Deer Control:
- Highstead Demonstration Project (Redding)
- Nature Conservancy's Devil's Den (Weston)
- Greenwich Audubon
- Wilton Land Conservation Trust
- Aspetuck Land Trust (Easton, Weston, Fairfield)
