Habitat = turkeys. If you have it, they will use it. If you don’t, they will go find it. Pines with overgrown understory will only make predators and decent deer cover. Take all the money spent on studies and overpriced researchers and put it into fuel for machinery and burning...the employees are already there and so is the infrastructure. Then create an incentive based program for private and timber companies to burn and plant perennials, like Florida does, and watch the turkey populations flourish. How is that pay to hunt places and private land managed for turkeys can take so many birds every year and still have plenty to hunt? Simple, they make them. You’ll never “save” enough gobblers through regulation to sustain a huntable population.
BINGO. Great post.
