Deer Hunting Season For 2024-25 To Begin In Basking Ridge

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — The 2024/2025 deer hunting season is set to begin later this month in Bernards Township.

The English Family Woods property, which is open for hiking off Allen Road, will be closed to the public on select dates in September through January to allow for hunting.

Only hunters approved by English Farm Associates are allowed to hunt on these specified days.

Here are a list of dates the property will be closed for hunting:

• September:
  • Saturday, Sept. 28
• October:
  • Saturday, Oct. 12
  • Saturday, Oct. 26
  • Thursday, Oct. 31
• November:
  • Friday, Nov. 1
  • Saturday, Nov. 2
  • Sunday, Nov. 3
  • Tuesday, Nov. 5
  • Wednesday, Nov. 6
  • Thursday, Nov. 7
  • Friday, Nov. 8
  • Saturday, Nov. 9
  • Sunday, Nov. 10
  • Saturday, Nov. 16
• December:
  • Monday, Dec. 2
  • Saturday, Dec. 14
  • Saturday, Dec. 21
• January 2025:
  • Saturday, Jan. 4
  • Saturday, Jan. 11
  • Saturday, Jan. 18

The Township's Deer Management Advisory Committee's report of the results of the 2023-24 hunting season, which ran from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024 revealed that 83 deer were killed and 109 during the 2022-23 hunting season in the township. Read More: 83 Deer Harvested In Basking Ridge During 2023-24 Hunting Season

Overall the committee reported that "road kills" on township roadways(not including I-78 and I-287) for the Deer Season Year 2023-24 was 47.

"This is 83.7 percent below the count of 289 for the base year 2001," according to the report.

The deer management committee will most likely again request an extended season from mid-February to the end of March 2025.

"We believe our deer program continues to make progress in reducing the deer population and the harmful impacts of deer – we are one of only four successful programs in NJ," according to the committee.

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