But I have yet to see other methods being proposed on this thread for population control - and believe me - population control is necessary in the white tail deer in New York state!!!! Overall population for the state runs (AFTER culling) about 6 deer per square mile.

At their Current levels - with about 1/3 of the population being reduced each year ("they" would like to see the harvest be closer to 1/2) deer pose a real problem to traffic causing quite a few accidents every year - if they are allowed to breed up to the point where they starve themselves down in population - (which seems as cruel to me as hunting them) it will become increasingly dangerous to drive - and deer damage to crops will increase because they will have stripped the "natural" areas to nothing...