Frederick Minshall:  Is this correct? The problem with having an invasive species in the area may be replacement of the natural wild animal. I'm not saying that this is an issue with turkeys. An example of domesticated animals being introduced into the wild is rabbits.  Rabbits are not hares. They are domesticated even the cottontail rabbit is a hare. The balance of nature becomes disturbed when the less elusive "rabbit" is introduced into nature. They are easier prey. They don't have the instinct and blending ability that hares do. An example: a black rabbit in the snow. Freeze rabbit, but I can still see you! I think the snowshoe hare becomes overpopulated because they are harder to catch by prey animals than the easy, tasty rabbits. This can lead to loss of food source to support new hares. Then hare population decreases and what happens to the predators that have eaten all the rabbits and the hares have starved which decreases the population for predators to eat!