BLOOMINGTON – Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, at 3400 North Headley Road., will be closed to the public for two weekends – Nov. 18-19 and Dec. 2-3 – for scheduled deer hunts.
The entire Griffy Lake Nature Preserve property is closed beginning at 11 p.m. the Friday before the hunt through 5 a.m. the Monday after the hunt.
A total of 27 registered hunters are expected to participate in the deer hunt this weekend.
Only hunters who applied and were selected to participate in the hunt are permitted to hunt at Griffy Lake Nature Preserve. The nature preserve remains closed to public hunting.
The goal of the annual deer hunts is to remove enough deer from the nature preserve to reduce deer browse pressure on understory plants and seedling trees to the point that these species are able to recover and continue reproducing within the preserve.
Parks and Recreation has actively managed the deer population at Griffy Lake with sharpshoots or hunts since 2017. See the deer harvest data, and plant height study results, online at bloomington.in.gov/boards/deertaskforce/griffy-lake.
For updated information, follow City of Bloomington, IN – Parks and Recreation on Facebook or call the Parks and Recreation office at 812-349-3700.
