RVCC Biologist: Deer Population Threatens New Jersey’s Forests, Wildlife

May 22, 2018 Environment

Jay Kelly, an associate professor of biology at Raritan Valley Community College, said May 21 that the state’s deer population is threatening forests and wildlife.

New Jersey’s forests are in a “crisis” because of the ever-expanding deer population, a Raritan Valley Community College professor told an audience in the Township Council chamber on May 21.

Jay Kelly, an associate professor of biology at RVCC, told the several dozen people assembled for the Environmental Commission’s deer and invasive species seminar that if nothing is done to reduce the overall deer herd in the state, forests and other wildlife will disappear.

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RVCC Biologist: Deer Population Threatens New Jersey’s Forests, Wildlife

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