Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk ALTurkey Talk -- Beards and Spurs The Turkey Numbers '26

If you want a “grass” map that’s actually showing what’s occurring then here it is…….at least as far as the way its playing out over here on my end of the red strip that’s so down this year………If you look at Google Earth map you can actually see the quail plantation land standing out……Its all of that orangish brown stuff you see….



Now if we zoom out……that main plantation belt of grass covers an area roughly something like below……I probably need to stretch that southwest corner out a little more and the eastern side probably runs farther south down through Barbour but its close enough to explain the concept.



The reality of what’s occurring is that all of that grass is producing a coyote density that is having impacts far outside of just the “grassland”…..This is the type of scale we’re actually dealing with……I think the reason why the counties like Elmore, Lee, and Pike are actually doing even worse right now is because the habitat there is getting pummeled by the extra predation pressure that's getting exported out to them from the coyote boom that likely occurred in the grassland ….The only way I can see you could do anything about this situation is either try and reduce the excess grass with the cattle idea or “break out the footholds”……