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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 4900488" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>The 3 bird limit was a token concession after all the proposals that might have been meaningful failed. The 3 bird limit literally passed BECAUSE it will not have a significant impact. Multiple people spoke and described the precipitous decline in turkey numbers over the last 5 years. The TWRA biologist stood up and said that (1) every measure of reproductive success is below what is needed for a healthy, sustainable population - % of hens attempting to nest, clutch size, nest survival, poult survival - all unacceptably poor. And (2) reducing the limit to 2 turkeys would have a significant impact on hunting pressure and gobbler survival which, they believe would impact (improve) the reproduction numbers. Because of that they <strong>DID NOT</strong> want to make that change. Because it would improve reproduction success and therefore might affect their money pit of a research project taking place in 6 counties out of 95. So they discussed a 3 bird limit. TWRA biologists said that, because so few kill 4 turkeys, reducing the limit to 3 probably would not affect reproduction or their research so the commission passed it. </p><p></p><p>To recap, they voted down every proposal that might have actually improved the reproductive health of a dwindling turkey population because improving reproduction right now might add another variable to a research project in 6 counties. But they reluctantly agreed to make a change that our own biologists said probably won't make a difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 4900488, member: 10399"] The 3 bird limit was a token concession after all the proposals that might have been meaningful failed. The 3 bird limit literally passed BECAUSE it will not have a significant impact. Multiple people spoke and described the precipitous decline in turkey numbers over the last 5 years. The TWRA biologist stood up and said that (1) every measure of reproductive success is below what is needed for a healthy, sustainable population - % of hens attempting to nest, clutch size, nest survival, poult survival - all unacceptably poor. And (2) reducing the limit to 2 turkeys would have a significant impact on hunting pressure and gobbler survival which, they believe would impact (improve) the reproduction numbers. Because of that they [b]DID NOT[/b] want to make that change. Because it would improve reproduction success and therefore might affect their money pit of a research project taking place in 6 counties out of 95. So they discussed a 3 bird limit. TWRA biologists said that, because so few kill 4 turkeys, reducing the limit to 3 probably would not affect reproduction or their research so the commission passed it. To recap, they voted down every proposal that might have actually improved the reproductive health of a dwindling turkey population because improving reproduction right now might add another variable to a research project in 6 counties. But they reluctantly agreed to make a change that our own biologists said probably won’t make a difference. [/QUOTE]
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