Starting Monday, Sept. 15, hikers will find a keep-out sign at the entrance to their favorite Duke Forest trails. The university will close public access to the 7,000-acre forest Mondays through Thursdays until Dec. 30 while it allows hunters to use bows and guns to thin its population of white-tailed deer.
Let's hope those guys are good shots. The forest's six subdivisions are surrounded by residential neighborhoods in Durham, Orange and Alamance counties.