RE: wolves/mnt lions to control deer?
I read before where in Up State NY, or wilderness area, it would take around 700 pairs wolves, and 200 cougars to control the population.
Problem 1: How do you keep the predators in just that area?
Problem 2: How do you train the predators to eat game animals, instead of little boys and girls on vacation, or in their backyard? or for that matter, moms and dads-actually no problem if anti-hunters, but the kids??
Problem 3: What happens when predators over populate an area, and move into population centers. What do we introduce as predators, to control the predators?
Finally, ask him if he likes to vacation in the woods, or rural locations like many families across the nation? If he does, and one of his kids are eaten, would he be sorry, or just look at like he was invading "their" territory.
Jeff...U.P. of Michigan