Quote Originally Posted by toomanycasts View Post
If they are native they should be there. Maybe the fish aren't gone. You might need to adapt your approach. Sounds like when people have an unhealthy fear of snakes and act irrationally.
Sure that would be fine if the natural predators were proportionally brought back also.

What the "restore the species groupies" doesn't get is that it took 100s if not 1000s of years for a natural balance to be achieved. When was the last time you saw a wolf or a fox?

When we first move to the Hamburg area of Lexington in 1995 we used to have a fox that visited for a day or two every 6 weeks and then moved on. As the development persisted he quit visiting. Now we have more tree rats than we can feed. Nature over time achieves balance. Man can muddle along and restore an out of balance species here and there.