Look, in reality trying throw out numbers like this to predict just how much impact such an incentive would have is pie in the sky bullchit at the best you can do. You can try and estimate it but you’re not truly gonna know until you implement it and even then it’ll be tough to isolate one variable and quantify its impact. At the end of the day though I think it would be highly likely that such an incentive would have positive impacts if there was enough participation and very, very unlikely for it to have any negative ones. Something it would do for sure is take away two less things people have to bitch about moving forward……starting the season earlier and trapping more predators. Anyone who complains about the season dates would have a way to solve that. We can talk about burning and creating habitat but there will still be hundreds of thousands of acres of land that will never see fire, such as timber company land, that could benefit from trapping.