Plan to kill all the deer on Catalina Island challenged by LA County Counsel, Supervisor Hahn

A plan to shoot and kill all the deer on Catalina Island is being challenged by the Los Angeles County’s Office of County Counsel, who wrote the island’s conservancy a stern letter asking for a stay of the eradication plan, calling it “reckless” and “inhumane.”

The letter from Dawyn Harrison, county counsel, dated Feb. 27, was sent to the Catalina Island Conservancy (CIC) which manages 88% of the island located off the coast of Long Beach, and Charlton H. Bonham, director California Department of Fish and Wildlife...