When Wisconsin's season was reopened, the graph showed the state's grouse bag still running parallel to Michigan with no sign of any advantage being gained by the closed seasons. The big difference was that Wisconsin sportsmen were deprived of their recreation and businesses of hunter-generated income. Biologist Kelsey said. Michigan hunters could at least get out on a nice fall afternoon even if they knew they weren't going to be very successful. Nature's grand design just doesn't work that way.
Land has a carrying capacity.
If there are more deer than the habitat will support, some have to be eliminated. It prevents slow starvation and excessive damage to timber and farm crops. A case in point is the story of the Kaibab deer. Naturally isolated on three sides by desert and on the fourth by a canyon, the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona was an unhunted haven for game animals. Between 1918 and 1924, the herd grew from some 20,000 animals to more than 100,000 and the experts warned that the food offered on the plateau could support only some 32,000 animals.