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Regarding game animal management I had an epiphany many years ago.

In the Sacramento valley and on up north there are many very large duck hunting wetland preserves. Many, many duck hunters pay to hunt on these wetland preserves. These preserves are in the main flyway for the ducks and geese. I always wondered about the proper use of these preserves for hunting on a major flyway. Then I read somewhere that is because the hunters pay for the preserves that they even exist. If it wasn’t for the hunters, then the lands would have been given over to farming and the waterfowl wouldn’t have the use during their migration, and there would be many less waterfowl.

So the hunters pay to keep the waterfowl population high, this way the hunters can have game to shoot. If there were no hunters, there would be few to no game to shoot.

It is in the best interest of hunters to have lots of game, and lots of trophy game. And therefore, it is recognized by hunters that proper game management has to exist.