There are also occasional special hunts to lower the saturation level of deer in a particular park or forest. These hunts typically last only a few days, and are announced late in the season with little or no public notice.
There are also other areas where the local community doesn't allow hunting at all and instead brings in "sharpshooters" and pays them to limit their Deer population. Princeton and Bridgewater New Jersey are both guilty of this idiocy. If I'm not mistaken, the meat and hides are all "disposed of".
Apart from the usual safety gear, weapon, and other implements of traditional deer hunting, in New Jersey there is one other thing you need....a lawyer.
Now that I've been in New Jersey long enough to get the lay of the land, I get the impression that the state realizes the costs of such severe limits on hunting, but they are unable to do much about it given the generation or two of constant anti-gun and anti-hunting indoctrination they've done.
Of course I could be wrong. It could be that the state is just run by a bunch of dim witted, tree hugging lefties that wouldn't know how to scratch their nether region without an environmental impact statement, and a state appointed committee.
So....what's the bag limit for lawyers in NJ?
In IA, its one, but there's no limit to possession.