SANDPOINT — A majority of Sandpoint City Council members approved a request from Sandpoint Airport officials to hunt deer within city limits this year.

A measure proposed to reduce the deer populations living around the airport, the deer hunt will be conducted by experienced bow hunters filling their normal hunting tags during the regular hunting season. Before airport and county officials could authorize the hunt, however, they needed to secure permission from the city to discharge weapons — in this case, archery weapons — within Sandpoint limits.

“I hate to say we have to kill some deer, but that’s a whole lot better than (letting people die),” Bonner County Commissioner Mike Nielsen said.

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