That is just too cool, congrats Josiah! Gotta be proud Hawkbow.
HT, I think it's great that you're concerned about harvesting females/males and seasons. As Mike stated , the rate of predation is not in tune with the rate of reproduction and so something has to give and in this case the vegetation will be overbrowsed, disease will spread more rapidly etc until there is a natural die off. By harvesting these abundant rabbits they are increasing the predation rate and keeping the local population in check and healthier.
Tracy