Our View: The deer are here to stay

The city’s resident deer population continues to divide residents.

Some would like to see the deer hunted by marksmen or officers while others would like to watch deer as they walk through their properties and eat their plants. The issue is so divisive that a city survey reflects a near-even split between those who love the deer and those who would love to see them leave.

While this thought may draw some ire from one half of our readership, we think the city will be forced to live with the deer as the proposed population control ideas already discussed aren’t sufficient methods of dealing with...