Letters to the Editor: Blaming Catalina’s deer for fires is unfair justification for a ‘mass slaughter’

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A new conservation plan seeks to shoot thousands of mule deer on Catalina Island, with officials citing wildfire risk concerns.

Critics dispute the wildfire threat claim, arguing that deer eat the very brush that fuels fires and calling the plan an inhumane mass slaughter.

Island residents report feeling excluded from the decision-making process, with some proposing relocation as a humane alternative.

To the editor : Catalina Island should not become a killing field ( “New conservation plan seeks to shoot Catalina’s deer on the ground instead of from helicopters,” Oct. 8). The claim that deer are a wildfire threat has been disputed by our own county fire chief. Deer eat the v