wildlife management

The Adirondack Council is criticizing Governor Kathy Hochul for vetoing a bill it says would have helped protect wildlife across New York state.

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.

New York wildlife researchers are taking a new approach to gathering citizen input to guide deer management objectives. The Department of Environmental…