Medical Lake deer committee tweaks proposed ordinance

Fines for feeding animals proposed, bow hunting along city’s perimeter discussed

The Medical Lake Citizens Deer Advisory Committee continued to make strides in addressing the city’s deer issue at its Dec. 10 meeting.

Committee chair Russ Brown presented a modified draft of an ordinance that prohibits residents from intentionally feeding the deer. The committee was scheduled to forward the ordinance to the City Council at the latter’s Dec. 16 meeting.

One addition Brown and his subcommittee made to the ordinance was to include language that prohibits residents from feeding elk, moose and other cervids — mammals that are a part of the deer family. Corey Stevens, Medical Lake...

 

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