I can't believe that any idea could be rejected in this thread for not being "feasible.".

You have gotta know that we are just talking about what we would like to see happen and there is nothing "realistic" about any of this. The state is looking for opportunities to shorten the season and make it later, not earlier. It would be a breathtaking reversal of direction for them to even talk about this as a real possibility.

But IF they did, I would argue that giving the incentive to burn has the potential to do far more in producing turkeys than collecting coon tails could ever hope to do. Getting even smaller tracts of land focused on producing poults will benefit all the land in the area. Provide the habitat and you will have turkeys.