Naturally, expanding deer-hunting season to keep the deer population down isn’t discussed as an option.
The people running the forest service are Ivy League grads who have never so much as been on a camping trip. Their idea of the wild is from Disney movies.
Invite deer hunters in... problem solved.
Neither is re-introducing enough cougars/mountain lions and wolves to keep the deer and elk within a healthy balance of prey and predator-that and seasonal deer hunting would bring the ecosystem there into the balance it had before people who had no idea how the natural world works started screwing with it-the fed needs to stay away-far away-and let the game wardens and plant biologists manage the area...