Ah, but EJ & Kat- its worse than either of you think. Having worked for a State fish & game departmentfor a quarter century, I can comment with some credibility that game animals in the US are not 'managed' to be in balance with the environment. They are 'managed' to maximize the number available for hunters to kill- because hunters pay for the licenses which fund the fish & game departments & fewer kills mean fewer licenses bought mean less revenue, etc. etc. Most states spend hundreds of times more 'managing' a single game species than they spend on all non-game species combined! It is also accepted that hunting is, in almost all cases, the least effective 'management' tool to control wildlife populations,and has virtually no effect where the whole machinery of the 'management' agency is to maximize numbers in the first place. Talk about a screwed-up system, but there you have it...