You just don’t understand the plan Cape. The 50,000 acres are going to act as the stocking zone for the county. They are going to forgo killing any does on their big managed properties, in order to improve the deer hunting for all the smaller neighboring properties surrounding them. The same ones that will continue to kill the chit out of them like they have been. Then, with the large landowner co-op properties no longer shooting or turning over any part of their doe population, a much higher percentage of their buck fawns will disperse off onto the “shoot anything” smaller neighbor’s properties, thus insuring that they still have plenty of young bucks to kill every year in addition to all the does. In addition, most of the non-co-op properties will also still be killing the crap out of does and in doing so, they’ll lower their dispersal rates and retain a larger percentage of their young bucks every year for harvest too. The small property owners will be all for it!

Sounds like a great plan CNC. Should be really easy to get the large landowners to jump at that deal. Your best and most effective way to sell it to the large landowners will be to pitch it as “ just think about all the money you’ll be saving on bullets, you won’t have to shoot all those does or hunt as much” because that will be the only tangible benefit to the large landowners for participating in the experiment.