For the record:

1. Contrary to what you are being told by John Rasweiler and others, contraception using PZP does work, is not expensive (about $64 a dose), deer can be innoculated via darts and simultaneously marked with dye for identification by local hunters under the auspices of a scientist from Tufts University who is currently  overseeing such a program at Hastings on Hudson, NY. Please read the science online. Look up PZP, not GonaCon or Spayvac. These are very different.  This is the perfect and humane solution for closely populated areas such as villages. Also, don't believe that does have extended breeding seasons, and therefore cause more deer vehicle collisions, any more than young adults on Birth Control cause more  accidents.  

If your elected officials were truly concerned with you welfare they would map the most frequent crossings where deer/vehicle colisions occur based on police reports and put deer signs and new pavement markers to let motorists know that these signs are no longer to be ignored.
 
This is not an answer for large open areas but is an excellent approach for highly populated villages and hamlets.  Then hand picked local hunters, who are the best marksmen can use site specific nuisance liscenses to cull on properties that have population problems that can't be addressed by birth control or sterilization.  
Then if you allow logical hunting in your Town, by revising the DEC's illogical rules, you will have your problem under control.  Without paying the USDA hundreds of thousands of taxpayer's money to keep them in business. Where do you think the Long island Farm Bureau's $200,000 came from to start this plan?  From your taxpayer dollars put toward NYS budget money, which was probably allocated to build deer fencing. 

As for humane? The USDA will use frangible bullets to kill deer as they drive around our neighborhoods at night looking for deer.  These explode on impact, so the bullet doesn't go throug the deer and enter your kitchen, and they cause large, shallow wounds.  This is not an instant kill.  This is a slow, painful, death.  Also, netting deer and then walking up to them and executing them at point blank range, is not quick and the deer cry out as the wait their turn.  This is not emotion. This is reality.  Let our boys manage our deer with skill and respect, not paid mayhem.  This is just wrong and the science they keep quoting is perverted for their own agenda.  Please call me John Raseiler.  I have a few things to tell you.

Wendy Chamberlin