I know a way to increase interest in wmas. Make it worth getting out of bed in the morning. Take hollins management area for instance. Section it off in 50 acre blocks. Clear cut 50 percent. Take the other 50 percent and split it in half. One half gets scraped clean with a bull dozier (which will be paid for by the proceeds from timber harvest) and is leased to farmers for growing corn and soybean only. The other half is left to grow naturally the way a cutover does. The money from the farming leases pays to plant winter forage for the deer and turkeys. I've had it up to my eyeballs with the red dickheaded woodpecker, screw those damn things. Do something for the deer, ducks, doves, quail, and turkeys.
Hollins is one of the better managed wmas in my opinion. I'd hate to see all that big timber harvested, would definitely put a dent in the turkey population
I didn't say all of it, I said half of it. From what I've seen, turkeys benefit greatly from ag fields, food plots, and cutover. After the acorns are gone, what food is left in those virgin hardwood forests during winter? Most places you can see 150 yards in any direction in the woods there.
