My email to all CAB members who's email I had access to:
Members of the CAB, As an avid Turkey hunter and outdoorsman, I am reaching out to you today asking you to vote down the proposed changes to the Turkey seasons and bag limits to be imposed as early as the Spring of 2022. It is clear that most of the constituents that you all represent reject these proposed changes to the seasons as they are steeped in politicism(not tangible scientific data) and a link between legal spring gobbler harvest and declining turkey populations cannot be found. I am no biologist, but common sense tells us to allow some of the points below to play into the discussion.
-common sense tells us that fluctuating populations of any species are ever present year to year - last spring was simply an anomaly based on the presence of more hunters in the field as a result of Covid-19 and widespread absences from work. Comparing last year' successes (or failures) harvests to this years harvest would surely show a skewed data set -shortened seasons and bag limits have been imposed in other states with no realized result -The DNR also proposed some nonsensical solutions to the CWD issue "kill all deer in an X mile radius of the first confirmed infection" do we really want the same agency making decisions about managing turkey populations with no data to stand on? -There are vast amounts of knowledge we do NOT have about turkey biology and behavior. Very little of it can be explained (That came straight from Chamberlain himself).
I implore you to uphold a heritage of turkey hunting in this state that has permeated for the last 70 years and DO NOT impose other changes to the seasons or bag limits at this time.
