TOO MANY DEER? YUP!

Nearly 75 percent of respondents to a survey taken by a Hopewell Township group to study the locale's deer situation said that "deer cause many problems and solutions are needed."

And this is from hundreds of replies that showed only 10 percent of these folks hunt deer.

The basic conclusion of the group, which it has recommended to the township committee, is that a permanent deer task force be put in place, with funding of course, and that there are too many deer and too few places to hunt them.

We'll have a more detailed report in a future print column.