Update on deer management opportunities in urban regions

The New York Times reports on urban locavores (people who focus on consuming foods from within their region) and urban hunting of deer, in "The Urban Deerslayer." (Ironically, last weekend I was watching a bit of an episode of "Gordon Ramsey's F Word" tv show, and he walked into the restaurant with a recently killed deer, and took it in the kitchen to be butchered.)

Michael Temchine for The New York Times. NO TROPHY, NO DINNER Nick Chaset helped found a hunting society for urban neophytes. He shot the deer above in Virginia.

From the article:

It was a taste for wild boar that spurred Nick Zigelbaum, 26, and Nick Chaset, 27, to form a hunting and dining club in San Francisco that they call the Bull Moose Hunting Society. The society, founded in 2007, was designed to appeal to young urban residents looking to expand their horizons.

The club now has roughly 55 dues-paying members, many of them in their 20s and 30s, who hunt for boar, pheasant and waterfowl together. They share local hunting knowledge and the spoils of a good day in the field at semi-regular events they call boar-b-ques and wild food dinners.

Mr. Chaset, who is now attending graduate business school in Washington, D.C., recently established a chapter of the club there. The founders hope that someday they’ll have a chapter in every major American urban area.

Also from the NY Times, "Slaughterhouse Live - You Be the Butcher."

Ryan Farr gives a whole-pig lecture. Image: David Barzelay/eatfoo.com.