Yep, bottom line don’t let bureaucrats mess with mother nature.
The issue is that Mule Deer were brought there.
They didn’t swim there on their own.
Like the white tail deer that live on the islands off of Maine.
Which are also a menace because there is no hunting with a gun on those islands. Only archery.
Didn’t the Rockefellers or some other rich guys bring these Mule deer and even Bison to Catalina Island back in the 1920s? They wanted them for a hunting reserve.
So, they are not natural to the island.
Just like the millions of wild boar that are all over Texas now.