The Carbondale City Council will consider a plan to allow archery deer hunting around Cedar Lake.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has been asking the city for several years to consider allowing hunters to harvest white–tailed deer around the lake. Deer hunting is currently prohibited on city property.
The change would help decrease the white–tailed deer population around the lake and in neighboring subdivisions where car–deer collisions and private property damage by deer is common.
The proposal would permit bow–hunting over a four year period on about 11–hundred acres of land boarding Cedar Lake. Deer hunting is already allowed on land owned by the US Forest Service on the south side of the lake.
The Carbondale City Council meets Tuesday at 7:00 pm at the Civic Center.
