You also need to put a bounty on feral cats, and make it illegal for people (like me) to Bush hog or plant anything in May or June.
I killed a nest full of eggs back in late May, while drilling corn. 😭

That's always discouraging to run over a nest, but you gotta plant chufas somewhere in that time period. My plan included big kickbacks to landowners for planting chufas. In fact, chufas were gonna be by far the most profitable crop.to grow, so you would have seen them everywhere. And there was gonna be government payments for all sorts of habitat improvement projects, and everyone would have abandoned loblolly plantations to make turkey habitat.

And I was even make the turkey researchers happy by giving them billions of research dollars. The only catch is that they had to focus on things that would actually benefit turkeys instead of trying to just justify hunting restrictions. We would for sure have Roundup Ready chufas by now. Some of the biologists would have said that taking my money was a sell-out and they should all stay true to the agenda, but trust me, they would have sold out anyway.

If only Obama would have returned my phone calls.

Some men make their living laying brick and mortar. I do not. It’s easy to spot men who rely on anecedote, innuendo, logical fallacy, and presentation. They’re often the highest paid in my profession. Dr. Chamberlain is cut from this cloth. His inauguration into the turkey world was with a research project where he declared that hens conducted an exhaustive search of their habitat before settling on a nest site that they had previously visited. Research, done by others under him, proved that this was not the case. In fact, this is actually what Dr. Chamberlain cited as the most surprising thing he has ever encountered in his turkey research- that he was proven wrong about something.

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Habitat loss

I'm a turkey expert I believe. I can grill it, fry it, smoke it and all kinds of stuff.

Most any of us are more qualified to be a turkey expert than that idiot calling himself a turkey doctor.

Spent the weekend at bear camp with some biologists that actually get dirty in the field. General consensus is that politicians are making the decisions based on how they feel... not based on science.

There is a whole lot about modern society that is sad, but the way that politics has been injected into science is one of the saddest. I am all for science, but now I don't know whether I can trust the scientists. Turkey research is just a relatively unimportant example of this; I don't know if I can trust any scientific study on any subject because politics is now involved in everything.

I tend to agree. So do the biologists 😁

These guys are doing what they love, & not making a huge living at it. When their hours of research & scientific data are brushed to the side by some bureaucrat... it's like a slap in the face.

I would say I have heard less and less of the "lets see where the science leads us" talk lately and much more of the activist approach of "lets quantify how bad X policy is" or "show how global warming is screwing this up" kind of talk. It was always there in the background but now it seems more like a badge of honor (maybe virtue signalling)

I can understand that all decisions can’t be based on science, at least not on biology. Some things just ain’t biological. In those instances public preference should prevail in policy decisions. This bag limit and season reduction appears to be supported by neither...