A public hearing will be held June 5th in Ridgefield on whether to continue the town deer hunt.  The controlled hunt was established in 2006 and has led to a near elimination of deer-car crashes in Ridgefield.  There had been about 150 accidents annually, but it was down to about a dozen in 2017 and 3 last year.  The Deer Management Implementation Committee reported to the Ridgefield Board of Selectmen that about a third of deer taken through hunting happened on the 14 approved parcels while the rest were culled by hunters on private or state owned land.  In 2009, shortly after implementation, 336 deer were killed.  Last year, the number was 153.