Looking in the Wrong Places

Run for your lives. The killer deer are coming.

Montana’s general big game season ended this week leaving a lot of hunters with unfilled mule deer tags. Wildlife officials say there’s been a drop in the statewide muley population for the last three years.

I think they’re all just looking for deer in the wrong places.

Try my yard in Livingston, my cabin on Fort Peck or the entire town of Malta where some folks have begun to fear for their lives.

“Is it going to take someone getting killed for you people to do something about the deer?” a worried resident asked the mayor.

Chances are slim that a...