In 1978, city officials banned hunting in the area, thinking it would help the natural symbiotic balance. In fact, the ordinance had the completely opposite effect. The deer quickly began to overproduce at a tremendous rate. In addition to damaging cars and plants, the estimated herd of 500 deer was slowly starving to death and overpopulating the area. They had very low body weight, low body fat percentage, and poor reproductive success (Budiansky). After the idea of ​​killing the deer was made public, the Humane Society of the United States quickly tried to stop it. After the Humane Society was defeated in court, police officers were hired to carry out the shooting. In 1993 they killed eighty deer. The following year as many as 160 were shot, and many more are killed each year to maintain a balance of deer and food. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in 2008 deer crashed into more than a million cars in the United States alone, resulting in an average of $2,000 per collision each time. Farmers also suffer from overpopulation of their herds. Deer and other animals eat billions of dollars worth of fruit and crops each year (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). The scope of the problems associated with overpopulation goes beyond the ecological damage it causes. The economic damage caused to the economy is over a billion