*The 2025-2026 season is closed for new hunters.*

The New Albany Urban Deer Management Program, which began in 2004, has successfully decreased the number of vehicle-deer crashes in the community. It has also simultaneously decreased complaints from local landowners who experienced landscape damage caused by overgrazing.

Hunting in New Albany is prohibited except on land designated to be part of the Urban Deer Management Program. Further, this land can only be hunted on by hunters who are annually chosen and officially recognized by the New Albany Police Department to be a part of the program. For land to be eligible for the Urban Deer Management Program, the landowner must sign a Hold Harmless Agreement. The area to be hunted must also be approved by the police department and be given a hunting zone number.

Please contact Officer Mills at hmills@newalbanypolice.org for more information or call 614-855-1234.