Wildlife management is definitely not a bad thing. There are poor types of wildlife management (WM). WM without restriction, with over-restrictionor lack ofdirection is a 'bad' thing. All WM management has to have a scientific purpose.A lot ofWM management in the U.S. is directed toward satisfying a social purpose. In an area where there is an overpopulation of a certain speciesthe state is often reluctant to raise bag limits due to the fact that there is anintense pressure from outside entities to keep things the way they are because they are afraid that the resource will be diminished. Thismay even bethough the additionalharvest is within compensatory mortalitybounds. Compensatory mortality, if you do not know, is a hunting mortality that is less than that of natural mortality or, in other words, the animals that were harvested would have, intheory, died anyway due to natural causes.In short, social WM is bad relative to scientific WM just because of that...it is not scientific. There absolutely has to be a scientific base; especially if you are going to defend hunting against anti-hunting people/organizations.