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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- While it might seem a little early for hunting season, hunters in urban centers in Indiana have a head start thanks to reduction zones.

“These are areas in and around some of our more major urban centers where we essentially have regulations in place that allow people to harvest additional deer for a longer period of time, and we do this to ultimately try to reduce conflict between people and deer in these urban areas.”

Joe Caudell, state deer biologist for the Indiana DNR tells me there are two types of reduction zones and we have examples of both in our Indiana counties.

The cities of South Bend, La Porte, Elkhart, Michigan City and Warsaw are all in a t

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