Wisely selective hunting in the absence of adequate predation can be important for an ecosystem, it's old wisdom. (Not that that is how hunting regulation works in Canada of course.)

But in an interdependent origination view of living in a web, hunting like that is not totally different from how we manage plants that evolved with herbivorous megafauna. Those megafauna are extinct, so now part of the web is broken. So people coppice willows, and they live three times longer and are more resistant to disease. Pruning by teeth is what many deciduous trees and shrubs evolved for, so we have to fill the gap to get a really healthy orchard.