I did move it to The Dog House. I am not sure whether there is as big a deer overpopulation in Montana as there is in many Eastern states. It is a trickier issue than first appears. Deer also carry ticks that can spread disease, if not CWD, then others. It is hard. I don;t know enough of the facts on the ground to give an opinion about this particular case. I also am always leery of online petitions, I have never seen evidence of one having an effect on any public policy, as they are impossible to verify, in terms of signatures like an actual paper one would be. So I believe they do more harm than good by leading people to believe they are helping, and yet they are expending energy, time and emotional stress and it will have no effect.