All wildlife have special niches in nature. The key mediator is how balance is maintained. Nature does a wonderful job, if left alone, at achieving population equilibrium between prey and predator. Unfortunately she works in a time frame far too distinct and sometimes lengthy for impatient humans to accept.
That being said, here in rural America we follow two rules, SoS - shoot on sight, and SS&SU - Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
As I get older, I don't like it. I feel bad now even taking a deer. But the reality is, at first sight of a nuisance on our small farm, the instinct kicks in. I move quickly and quietly to the door, grab the rifle which is always there, loaded, I exit, aim and fire.
Nature is beautiful and hard. As much as I love nature, I can’t escape it, neither can the ‘yotes.
Nature does a wonderful job, if left alone, at achieving population equilibrium between prey and predator.Complete crap, sold by the likes of the sierra club idiots to help agenda 21 along.
Despite being discredited among ecologists, the theory is widely held to be true by the general public, with one authority calling it an "enduring myth".
It is the “balance of nature,” a concept pretty much everyone accepts — with the notable exception of ecologists. The natural environment, as it is currently understood by science, is in a constant state of flux. Upheaval, not balance, is the norm. That we believe otherwise has proven problematic for the teaching of basic ecological literacy, according to a just-published paper by psychologist Corinne Zimmerman of Illinois State University and ecologist Kim Cuddington of Ohio University. Their study of students at two major Midwestern universities found the discredited “balance of nature” idea is widely held among both science majors and the general student population. What’s more, it is extremely difficult to dislodge. “They’re almost unable to reason logically about environmental problems because they keep bumping into this cultural concept,” Cuddington said. “It’s influencing their thought processes.”
"The staying power of this idea became clear when she asked students in her introduction to ecology course, “Do you think a predator could ever drive a prey species to extinction?” “They uniformly answer no — even though it does happen all the time,” she said.