Folks in Montana are Losing it
I have long held the opinion that Montana folks are salt-of-the earth, common sense type people. Now, I am starting to wonder. Have they been invaded by huggers or what?
In Helena, they have a few more mule deer in town than some folks like, 
so they have spent all kinds of money studying the problem and finally decided to have the cops catch the deer in nets, then shoot them, then feed them to the needy. Just a short distance from Helena, there is a deer unit that has a much lower than desired mule deer population. The deer in Helena are fairly safe from predators and the ones outside are not. The deer have been talking and have decided they like it better in town.
For some strange reason, no one has thought of moving the deer. Lately though, the Helena bunch has been talking about having a yearly archery hunt, but they do not think the archers will be successful enough to kill the requisite number of deer. And, if a hunter shoots a muley which then dies on someone’s front porch – o’ brother.
In contrast, over in Billings, some folks want to build a bridge across the Little Missouri. Some other folks are resisting on the basis that a bridge would cause problems for all the mule deer in the river bottoms. What it all boils down to is this: no matter which side of the fence you are on – them mule deer sure cause a lot of problems.
