CNC, if you are gonna dream, why not make the dream bigger? Why not include other management practices in the plan to earn an earlier turkey season? How about anyone who conducts a prescribed burn on 20 acres or more also qualifies? Let the landowner or leaseholder list a helper for every 20 acres so that folks not in a club or who don't own land could still participate? There will already be some documentation of the burns with the burn permits, so this would be an easier job for the dcnr than collecting coon tails.
You gotta know that there is no chance of getting any of this approved unless Chuck gets something out of the deal. Documenting either practice and issuing the permits would mean extra work for them, so it's gotta have a fee tied to it. The question is, how much would it have to be for the dcnr to consider it and would that be an amount that hunters would be willing to pay?