City rejects move to end hunting around Broken Ground Trails

By DAVID BROOKS

Monitor staff

Published: 03-15-2023 6:11 PM

Hunting will continue to be allowed around the Broken Ground Trails despite concern raised by a resident after deer entrails were found along a trail, near the scene of last year’s double murder.

The woman suggested the city prohibit hunting on the public land after encountering the innards of a deer left near a trail by a hunter.

“In light of the tragedy on this trail and the lack of safety to have hunters and walkers on the same trails, I request that the City consider banning hunting on the Broken Ground Trails,” Megan De Vorsey wrote to the City Council.

The City Council referred the issue to the Conservation Commission, which said in a report that it did not recommend “posting to prohibit hunting on city-owned conservation land,” noting that hunting “is a traditional use in New Hampshire.”

Hunting regulations are enforced by New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers.

Hunters usually remove the entrails from game animals right after they are killed to help preserve the meat and make it easier to carry away the carcass. Fish and Game encourages hunters to leave the entrails behind as a source of food for other wildlife, but says they should not be left where other people can encounter them.

Steve and Wendy Reid, who lived at nearby Alton Woods, were shot and killed while walking on the trails last April. A transient, Logan Clegg, has been charged with their murders.

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