{"id":2469,"date":"2026-09-05T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/judge-orders-cull-of-2500-mule-deer-introduced-to-catalina-island-in-1920s\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:34:34","slug":"judge-orders-cull-of-2500-mule-deer-introduced-to-catalina-island-in-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/judge-orders-cull-of-2500-mule-deer-introduced-to-catalina-island-in-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders cull of 2,500 mule deer introduced to Catalina Island in 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catalina Island&#8217;s mule deer, released in the late 1920s, now pose serious threats to local flora and contribute to increased wildfire risks. In response, conservation leaders have outlined a contentious strategy to significantly reduce the mule deer population. Following a legal challenge that was dismissed by a judge, the cull is set to commence, aimed at preserving the island&#8217;s natural environment and lowering fire hazards.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalina Island&#8217;s mule deer, released in the late 1920s, now pose serious threats to local flora and contribute to increased wildfire risks. In response, conservation leaders have outlined a contentious strategy to significantly reduce the mule deer population. Following a legal challenge that was dismissed by a judge, the cull is set to commence, aimed at preserving the island&#8217;s natural environment and lowering fire hazards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}