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and December due to a health issue, but Mr. Brumfield said Mr. McLean continues to support the program.

The program has had mixed results since it began in late 2015. During that season, 219 deer were culled through archery and sharpshooting. The following year, 91 deer were culled during the same time period, largely due to unseasonably warm temperatures.

The impact on traffic safety has also been dubious —a threefold increase in collisions with deer occurred lastyear.

Through October of this year, fewer collisions have occurred than last year, but the number is still about 35 percent higher than in 2015. The goal of the program when it was adopted in 2014 was to reduce deer/vehicle collisions by 50 percent in fiveyears.

Resident Bill Hoon, often the only person to comment consistentlyon the program, said Monday that he and other residents have a plan to feed deer in neighborhoods where sharpshooting andarchery aren’t allowed.

“We have decided to go underground,” Mr. Hoon said. “We plan to double the number of people doing that next year … so they will stay out of your kill zone. We’re going to do everything we can.”

But Ms. Fraasch warned that the plan might do more harm than good, by altering the diets of deer and making themfriendlier to humans.

“It’s probably the worst thing you can do,” she said. “It’snot fair to the deer.”

Feeding deer also violates a Mt. Lebanon ordinance andis punishable with fines.