I was just being curious. I’ve read where wolves were re-inserted in areas because the local wildlife was getting out of hand. I think they did it in the Olympics in WA and in Oregon someplace. My thoughts were, well how did nature take care of over population of one species. So perhaps looking at areas where there is no hunting, such as National Parks and see how the wolf/elk population is being handled on a natural level. If elk were being depleted by wolves one has to ask why? Introduce more elk? Still seems to me that nature had a way of dealing with over population.
Well, government has made sure that *nature* cannot deal with overpopulation by making laws against things like hunting wolves. Don’t forget, humans are part of nature too. Of course, sometimes things get out of balance for various reasons and one population blooms and they die of starvation and disease. Sometimes they even become extinct even without man’s help (amazing that!). Natures way of dealing with over population is to simply let it get out of hand and let them die off when there aren’t enough resources to support them. She doesn’t wring her hands over it. She also doesn’t try to amass a power base and raise funds over it either.