Biologists sterilized 114 deer for the first time in East Hampton Village, New York over 12 nights in January as part of of the Deer Population Management Program.

Newsday reported the experiment is in an attempt to maintain population among deer on Long Island. Overpopulation of the animal poses a threat to drivers and could spread lime disease.

White Buffalo Inc., a Connecticut nonprofit organization that specializes in deer management, made a goal to sterilize up to 160 deer. It will return next month to continue their form of animal birth control.

Mark Deffendall of Hendersonville wrote a letter to The Tennessean speaking out against the Deer Population Management Program. The tax dollars being used for the experiment "would be much better spent improving our city or minimizing the increases in our property taxes," he wrote.

"Removing the deer near Wal-Mart will not impact the density of deer on the Indian Lake Peninsula, the Walton Ferry Peninsula nor the other heavily wooded border areas in our residential communities where car-deer collisions are occurring," Deffendall continued.

The citizen insists that the city should allow deer hunting instead.

"I am confident that if the city would allow deer management through a limited permit-only archery program, there would be little or no cost to the city; the venison could be easily donated to charities who feed the hungry; and no guns would be discharged in our city," Deffendall said.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania may be experiencing a declining deer population as a result of a growing coyote population, The Sentinel reported.

Randy Santucci, president of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, said he was concerned about the deer population five years ago.

"The point was very, very strong that there is this growing coyote population on the eastern seaboard that is affecting deer populations dramatically," he said.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission issued a study on the effect of predator population on the deer population, although hunters say they see coyotes all around.

New York's Deer Population Management Program will study how the sterilization will affect the deer population.

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