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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4897795" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Another thing to note . . . . . . .</p><p></p><p>Regardless when we open our spring season, the number of turkeys we have to hunt is totally dependent on how many have survived from prior years, and 100% of those are "locally" hatched, grown, and survived.</p><p></p><p>This is very unlike dove hunting & waterfowl hunting, where most of the birds we have to hunt "migrate" in from other states and areas hundreds of miles away.</p><p></p><p>Imagine, if the State of Minnesota had a "spring" duck season, where hunters were traipsing around the nesting grounds in late March & early April, never mind if they were "only" killing male ducks?</p><p></p><p>That "disturbance" would greatly decrease nesting success (in part to more "sitting" on non-fertile eggs) while increasing predation on sitting hens, unhatched eggs and just-hatched birds. Future years would see fewer ducks, both fewer females & fewer males.</p><p></p><p>Or course, we don't hunt ducks during the spring nesting season,</p><p>but that is exactly what we do with our turkey seasons.</p><p>It's vitally important we don't do too much, too soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4897795, member: 1409"] Another thing to note . . . . . . . Regardless when we open our spring season, the number of turkeys we have to hunt is totally dependent on how many have survived from prior years, and 100% of those are "locally" hatched, grown, and survived. This is very unlike dove hunting & waterfowl hunting, where most of the birds we have to hunt "migrate" in from other states and areas hundreds of miles away. Imagine, if the State of Minnesota had a "spring" duck season, where hunters were traipsing around the nesting grounds in late March & early April, never mind if they were "only" killing male ducks? That "disturbance" would greatly decrease nesting success (in part to more "sitting" on non-fertile eggs) while increasing predation on sitting hens, unhatched eggs and just-hatched birds. Future years would see fewer ducks, both fewer females & fewer males. Or course, we don't hunt ducks during the spring nesting season, but that is exactly what we do with our turkey seasons. It's vitally important we don't do too much, too soon. [/QUOTE]
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