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A few days ago, the Oak Bay News published a letter from Nils Jensen & the Oak Bay Council on the deer. (Original PDF can be found here, a bit better formatting, from the City of Oak Bay website.) It’s great they’re increasing feeding fines and allowing taller fences (there was a 6′ height restriction, which is insufficient from keeping our bounding buddies out.) And they’re mirroring our efforts by sending out two new CRD deer leaflets (which we link to on our Greater Victoria Deer Advocates site) in this week’s Oak Bay News. Education is key to this issue. An excerpt from our Living With Deer booklet. In the letter, Mayor Jensen writes “[in] the absence of any natural predation, the deer population has increased dramatically, and as a consequence, so are the incidents of deer/human conflict on the rise.” While we know there is a raise in conflict, it’s…