Deer hunt planned again in northern NJ

For a second year in a row, sharpshooters will help thin the deer population in a 2,000-acre northern New Jersey land preserve.

Last spring, volunteer marksmen in Essex County killed 213 of an estimated 300 to 400 white-tail deer in the South Mountain Reservation.

The nature preserve borders hundreds of high-priced homes in the thick of the country's most crowded state.