With all this talk about herd management I got to thinking......

What would happen if we didn't try to kill off all these does? What would happen if we just left this process to natural selection?

Don't get me wrong, I too have been out killing does trying to get the numbers down. But the more time I spend out hunting (and thinking) I can't help but wonder what's the harm of just letting them self populate.

After all, if the deernumbers get too much for the land to hold they will die off right? Then the numbers would be right for the area. This cycle would continue (theoretically) as the years go by. I know ALL the deer won't die, for the most part just the weaker deer, so what's so wrong with that?

What's our goal here anyway? I'm starting to question it myself. Perhaps we should just hunt what we like and let Mother Nature take care of the rest? As long as we as hunters don't kill off the population (I think we are the deer populations main threat), I find it hard to believe they will kill themselves off, I don't think that's even possible.

Your thoughts?