{"id":303286,"date":"2026-10-09T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303286\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:32:07","slug":"plum-council-members-take-steps-toward-managing-deer-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303286\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Council Members Take Steps Toward Managing Deer Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plum Council officials have unanimously agreed to host representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate educational options for controlling the borough&#8217;s rampant deer population.<\/p>\n<p>This preliminary step aims to replicate a strategy used by neighboring Oakmont leaders to study what wildlife management measures have successfully worked in other local municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>While the council is currently focused strictly on gathering information, potential long-term solutions under consideration include banning the feeding of deer or establishing a structured deer culling program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plum Council officials have unanimously agreed to host representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate educational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10494,25024,124695,73,75,74,49682],"class_list":["post-303286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-council","tag-deer","tag-oakmount","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-plum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}