I fear you are right. Could be a VERY long time before things come back to normal, if they ever do. I fear some will NOT recover.
Don't feel most American's have a very good grasp of ecology...the seasonal ebb and flow and the food web. Destroying one link in the chain could cause the whole thing to collapse over time.
Just my opinion.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer