With DNR laws, you cannot hunt within 100 yards of a dwelling. Most homes in Columbia are closer than that making it difficult to control the deer population there. There’s enough trees for them to bed down in, streams for water, and they have gotten used to the humans because (as mentioned previously) there’s no predators out here.

Edit to fix: my husband corrected me—DNR states you can’t hunt within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling.