Scotland could become the world's first 'rewilding nation'. How did they get here?

[Wounded Bear]

5. Was watching a nature doc on some local channel dealing with ticks and lyme disease...

A doctor/researcher was investigating how the local mice population transmitted the ticks to deer and to humans in the brush.

Concurrently, a biotech firm was developing gene therapy for the mice that made them resistant to the ticks. They would capture treat and release the mice back into the wild.

As I was watching the show I was wondering...gee, what might the situation be if we hadn't killed off all the wolves and lynx in the area (it was in New Jersey)? The lack of predators no doubt led to the mice overpopulating. We all know how rodents breed.

I'm not sure they were pursuing the best solution to the problem.