What about reintroducing natural predators and setting up preservation or conservation areas for them to live in? Too often we rely on a "quick fix" that will really not help the problem in the long run. Unless we keep shooting and killing overpopulated animals there will be no "balance." It's people's fault that it is this way, and I think it should be our responsibility to fix it, in the most natural, humane way possible.
We have a deer population of over 700,000 deer just in the state of Ohio. Introducing natural predators did not solve our problem. They brought in Coyotes to try and help the over population that would starve in the winter or come down with TB due to lack of water and alls it did was let the coyotes prey on our pets of dogs and cats and other live stock cause they were easier to prey on. I used to hunt but now I do not. No time actually. I do go to local hunters and get there left over year old deer meat from thier freezers and feed it to my dogs. Venison just happens to be some of the best raw meat for dogs do to its leanness of it. I'm not in favor of the people who hunt for sport and leave the animal lay.