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It’s not exactly a concrete jungle, so much as a concrete semi-arid forest. But it is home to many animals.

“To state the obvious, deer live in Missoula” wrote Ward 4 representative John DiBari as introduction to a recent proposal to try (again) and solve the urban deer problem. Missoula City Council’s Public Safety and Health Committee took up the issue Wednesday.

To some Missoulians the issue may not seem obvious, while others wage a wildland-urban interface war of attrition against their pesky neighbors: installing expensive fencing, changing gardening habits and sometimes giving up completely on the front yard.

So to many, culling — or strategic capturing and killing of the deer to reduce the overall population — sounds like a great plan: kill the deer, donate the meat to the food bank, get the garden back.

“If we have an overabundance of deer and we have hungry people in Missoula, it makes sense to put those problems together,” Ward 6 representative Marilyn Marler said. “But not all of Missoula has even the perception of a deer problem.”