Meh…….that’s the generalized bull-doodoo version of it…….There’s more complexities to what’s actually occurring with understory structure like I just pointed out with the thick grass…….
The one thing I hear thrown around a lot is the lack of brood rearing habitat
If you remember on the hen survival video though it doesn’t matter if you have a good place for brooding if half of your hens are being killed during nesting each year and frequently being disturbed and run off the nest……That’s the imbalance that’s plaguing these areas where it’s a sea of thick grass understory…….You’ve got all of this great brooding you’re creating with fresh burns that just occurred a couple months ago but you’re canceling out a lot of the benefit (maybe all the benefit) by it eventually growing up in all of that thick grass understory that inflates the predator population to epic levels as well as the thick structure causing the hens to nest in vulnerable locations near an edge……
One of the big disconnects we have is in thinking that if there are a lot of predators then it must have a silver lining and be good because that means there should be a proportionate amount of prey……The proportionate amount of prey that is dictating the predator population in these grass praries though is rodents at its base…….It has nothing to do with turkeys other than the turkeys having to deal with how dense you make the predators…
