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Nyles Lehnen enjoys hunting and the outdoors. As an outdoor aficionado, Nyles Lehnen understands the importance of conservation and how it affects not only the environment, but the animals that live in that environment, including human beings. While nowadays hunting is not a necessity as it once was, there are still many different ways that people choose to go about it. Nyles Lehnen, for one, makes sure that he doesn’t kill anything he isn’t planning to eat. Nyles Lehnen as a hunter understands that nature exists in a delicate balance of predator and prey. Conserving that balance is important not only to the animals that live in the wild, but also to the people. As an avid sportsman, Nyles Lehnen has a great familiarity with invasive species. There are numerous examples of people attempting to tinker with the balance of prey and predator in their area, with everything from plants to animals to natural habitats. Often, these “solutions” turn out to cause much bigger problems than the original problems. When human beings try to correct nature’s problems, more often than not, they create larger ones. Nyles Lehnen is familiar with several states, including Michigan and Florida, that require you to kill certain fish if you catch them. Their numbers are so high, and so threatening to native wildlife, that you can incur a hefty fine just for throwing them back without killing them. Nyles Lehnen has travelled across the country for his hunting trips and is aware that in many cases, out of control populations are caused by human beings. For example, many Southern states have large deer populations. The deer populations have grown in this way because as those places were being settled, the deer’s natural predators like wolves and cougars were hunted to extinction, so that humans could live safely in these areas. A few hundred years later, with the need to hunt having diminished severely, and with all the deer’s natural predators absent from the picture, states like North Carolina and South Carolina now encourage the hunting of deer, in order to keep their populations under control.
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