East of the Mississippi we killed off all the predator species and hunting is not as prevalent as in times past. Deer etc. are running around with nothing to control the pollution. In the era of the iphone the idea of sitting in the woods for hours on end is too boring.
“Environmentalist” vs. “Conservationist.”
When you have X land and that land can healthily support Y lions and you have Y + 1 lions the pride has to be culled by 1.
Enviro:
Why kill such a magnificent animal. (Meanwhile Y + 1 goes to Y + 20 and then all the lions starve.)
Conservation:
2 Options:
1) Park rangers kill a a lion
2) Hunter pays the $50,000 License fee, hires 20 locals for a couple of weeks for wages exceeding their normal salaries for a year and injects about $150,000 into the local economy.
You may have meant "population", although WRT whitetail deer "pollution" makes a certain amount of ironic sense. I'd rather the excess deer be killed with a Winchester than with a Ford ... the former method does less damage to human life and property.
People hunt all over the place here but the deer have started to congregate in places where it is no hunting...like my neighborhood which is adjacent to the National Forest. we are overrun with deer.