Gettysburg plans defy controversy: NPS contends with deer, land swap, and new museum. (National Park Service; Gettysburg National Military Park)

National Parks, September, 1995 by O'COnnell, Kim A.

Deer overpopulation in the Gettysburg Park will be controlled through shoots in and outside the park. Creative landscaping will solve another problem by hiding old damage resulting from a 1990 land swap. Plans for a new Civil War museum will proceed in spite of federal cuts in funding.

GETTYSBURG, PA.--The National Park Service has issued its final say on a divisive plan to control Gettysburg National Military Park's overpopulation of white-tailed deer. In addition, the park has concluded a five-year-old land exchange dispute and begun planning for a new Gettysburg Museum of the Civil War.

After reviewing more than 200 comments from individuals and organizations, NPS stood by its proposal to reduce the park's deer herd. The deer destroy crop fields and woodlots...

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