Feds will shoot deer at 2 Maryland Civil War 戦場s
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) ― 連邦の 政府 sharpshooters will 的 hundreds of white-tailed deer at two Civil War 戦場s in Maryland this December, 開始する，打ち上げるing a multi-year program 目的（とする）d at 抑制（する）ing 損失 to forests and 工場／植物s, the 国家の Park Service said Tuesday.
The 農業 Department sharpshooters 計画（する） to kill 243 deer at Antietam 国家の 戦場 and 278 at Monocacy 国家の 戦場 from December through March under a program the park service 認可するd in 2014. Both parks have deer 全住民 濃度／密度s more than 10 times greater than the 一般的に 受託するd 維持できる 濃度／密度 of 15 to 20 per square mile, park service spokeswoman Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles said.
The 政府 will 寄付する all suitable deer meat to food banks, she said.
"除去するing deer is the 道具 to 許す healthy forests," Anzelmo-Sarles said in a telephone interview. "Or, in some 事例／患者s, with the 戦場s, to 保護する these historic landscapes that help tell the story of the 戦う／戦い which the park was 設立するd to 保存する."
She said 部分s of the parks will be の近くにd periodically from December through March to enable the sharpshooters to 安全に work. 追跡（する）ing is 禁じるd in the parks.
This is the first of a multi-year deer 削減 計画（する） the 機関 認可するd for both 戦場s 加える Manassas 国家の 戦場 Park in Virginia. Manassas park 経営者／支配人s are still working to 安全な・保証する 基金ing and reach an 協定 with the USDA, Anzelmo-Sarles said.
At Antietam, about 70 miles west of Baltimore and Monocacy, 20 miles その上の east, the 計画（する） calls for 殺人，大当り a 連合させるd total of about 1,200 deer over five years, followed by 年次の 維持／整備 殺人，大当りs to keep the 全住民 イオン check.
The park service also 発表するd 計画（する）s for 維持／整備 deer 除去 at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, starting in November. 政府 sharpshooters have killed nearly 1,200 deer there since the program began in 早期に 2010, producing more than 15 トンs of venison for food banks.
The 国家の Park Service has deer-除去 事業／計画（する）s in place at many other parks 含むing Gettysburg 国家の 軍の Park in Pennsylvania.
