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		<title>Conservancy announces deer season</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtesy of Catalina Island Conservancy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Catalina Island Conservancy on June 18 announced a new approach to the annual deer hunting season, offering exclusive access to island residents in 2025. The resident-only season will run from Oct. 15 through Dec. 15 with up to 200 tags available. This initiative continues to honor a long-standing local tradition. Why the change? More [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deer plan to be revised</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 17:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Charles M. Kelly The proposal to eradicate Catalina Island’s mule deer population by having professional hunters shoot them from helicopters has been canceled. The Catalina Island Conservancy will instead revise the eradication plan and move ahead with a ground hunting season, according to information posted on the Conservancy’s website that Wednesday evening. A statement [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: publisher Friday, April 19, 2024</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I feel the need to respond to two comments that was made at last weeks City Council meeting regarding the deer. One statement was, The Community doesn’t believe the Catalina Island Conservancy’s science. My question is, why would the Community believe the the Conservancy’s science? At a Avalon City Council meeting Tony Budrovich, President and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published Dec. 15, 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Offended by New York Times article Editor’s note: The author of this letter originally sent it to the New York Times. The author sent a copy of the letter to the Islander. I am writing about the New York Times article, “The Plan to Save a California Island: Shoot All of the Deer.” As a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published Dec. 8, 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another deer scenario When I read the Catalina Island Conservancy (CIC) plans to kill all the deer on the island to best control the over-population of them, I am putting out a possible scenario instead. How about use a gas to render them unconscious and then you can sterilize/neuter them in the field. Then it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rally set for Nov. 19 to protest deer eradication</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Community Rally against the proposed mule deer eradication will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nov. 19, at People’s Park, across from Avalon City Hall, according to an online flyer bearing the logo of the Coalition Against the Slaughter of Catalina Deer. The event is described as family-friendly, featuring information booths, letter-writing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>City Council questions Conservancy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Report]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Second of two parts. Following the Conservancy’s Oct. 17 presentation on the restoration plan for the Island, City Council questioned the Conservancy’s representative. Space wasn’t available in last week’s paper for details about that part of the meeting, so here it is. The restoration plan has become controversial because part of the plan calls for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor: published Oct. 27, 2023</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catalina Islander Readers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Appalled As a long-time visitor to Catalina, my family, friends and I are appalled at the idea of the slaugtering/murder of the mule deer on the Island. Who thought of this? Are they crazy? Why do they think visitors come to Catalina? We come to see wildlife, the beach, clean air, and other things that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Future of Catalina mule deer up to state</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles M. Kelly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A male mule deer recently visited third-graders in Avalon. Their teacher sent the Islander a photog of the buck’s visit. The Catalina Island Conservancy argues that mule deer pose a threat to the Island and its endangered plant species. The Conservancy website, in the FAQs page for the Conservancy’s Restoration Project, says the deer population [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Outdoor Dining</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[For the Islander]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A deer finds something to snack on, on the porch of a Avalon home recently. Download QR]]></description>
		
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