Jeremiah, you and I are friends, thanks for the Adult conversation and discussion, I feel as friends we can discuss things even if we differ on some things!
I think you are correct on most all of your statements...you are correct the State can balance the deer population by increasing tags, etc, and by opening up land...deer are not on Grant road anymore, because they are on the east side of CJ where no hunting is allowed, last time Dale and I went out to check the ice, there were 3 different herds from the Marina, back into the campgrounds, they all move into the fields in the summer, when they are safe...'Yotes, cull the young and Old deer until the herds are in balance, then female 'yotes have fewer pups, or the families are culled by nature. Right now they are producing extra pups due to the OVER ABUNDANCE of Prey. They Prey has just moved to safer areas and the predators have followed!
Just out in my area, there are over 20 herds of deer, from Rt 72 to Rt 68 (East and West) from I70 to the Clark/Greene border...and all of this land is no hunting. I have had 14 Turkeys at a time feeding in my backyard bird feeders.
Animals like humans, pretty much know where they are safe...the reason for the infestation my area, is that all the land IS NO HUNTING and all the farmers hunt predators, because "they are bad"!
Once everything becomes STABLE again, the 'yote population will cull itself...this ALWAYS HAPPENS in Nature! WE (Man) ruin the balance by trying to play God, instead of letting it play out!

Had someone ask me why we play God at CJ....CJ was a MAN-MADE lake that was designed by idiots with no foresight! So instead of just having a bowl that held water and had massive swings in the fishery, a bunch of fishermen, did their best to improve a fishery that the State botched in the beginning. And we did it to benefit the whole dang fishery and everyone, not just to make honey holes! WE WORKED WITH NATURE TO HELP BALANCE CJ...NOT AGAINST IT!