Urban Wildlife
Clashes with Deer Continue
By Kirk Siegler, 11-01-05
Here’s something from the quirky news file: an aggressive six point buck held a teenage paperboy hostage underneath a car for twenty minutes the other morning in Helena.
It’s the latest in a string of clashes between urban-dwelling deer and city residents. In Montana’s capitol city, where second and third-generation urban deer are quite common, city officials are perplexed for a solution. New West’s own Wild Bill Schneider has offered up his proposal on our pages.
With the traditional population control mechanism, hunting, seemingly out of the question (this is a city after all, despite the fact that it’s Montana), it will be interesting to see if a workable solution can be found, one that will protect wildlife, and early morning paperboys.
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