One of the biggest issues here to me seems to be the perspective folks are taking in viewing the problem……When I look at it I’m zooming out and looking at the land in 25K acre chunks and I’m recognizing that "50% of the hens are seeking out 7% of the habitat" within that chunk of land……I listen to Dr Lashley talk about the hens on Ft Bragg seeking out that “just right” level of understory thickness that exists only in a small percentage of the landscape……..

……and I plug that information into the 25K acre “simulation” and watch the hens around the landscape flock to those just right areas and fill them up during nesting while the rest of the hens get in where they fit in at random spots……Then at look at each one of those nesting spots in that 25K acre area and ask the question “How many of the hens nested in very vulnerable locations??”…….and then I look at the totality of that…..and so and so forth

Meanwhile, it seems like the experts are taking one property within that 25K acre area and trying to explain the situation by what occurs on that one single property…….Not recognizing simple things like the fact that a coyote that gets caught in some hardwoods over here today might have been two miles or ten miles away tomorrow running interior roads and killing hens in a nesting stand had he not been caught

Last edited by CNC; 03/20/26 10:43 AM.
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