(November 6, 2017 at 8:09 am)Cyberman Wrote:(November 6, 2017 at 7:30 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: In a perfect world the thinning would be left to the "trained predators", wolves, lions, bears.
... and humans.
Humans would kill enough to eat. There would be no need for thinning if the balance is restored. Yellowstone is a good example. There were no new aspen trees grown there for seventy years after the last wolf was killed. When the wolves returned the aspens came back, no more over-eating by over-populated deer herds. The beavers came back, the coyotes weren't killing as many because the wolves ran them off. The beaver ponds provided wetlands. The water fowl came back. And so on.