A burnt nest is a burnt nest. No guarantee they will renest. Anyone who claims to be a scientist while representing as fact something they cannot measure is talking out of their backside. People need to understand biologists tout results whether or not they can provide them just like stock brokers.

The late burning started with Dei hiring. A wildlife refuge I hunt was about out of turkeys until they finally stopped burning nests. Now they have turkeys while the neighboring lands which did not take a hard line on late burning have not caught up.

It only decreases if you call them out on their nonsense. The forestry people and the biologists cover for each other. They get their checks from the same source and it ain't you.