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<blockquote data-quote="BigDave12" data-source="post: 5360922" data-attributes="member: 13595"><p>Great perspective and great plan. I am happy to hear that instead of just going full bore at harvest allowances, you decided to impose management techniques that assist your hunters, the carrying capacity of the land, the resources of the land available to the wildlife population, and the balance of what's best for the wildlife population itself. Just because the laws allow one to harvest specific numbers of a species, doesn't mean we actually HAVE to do that. As hunters and the most important conservationists out there, we should all learn how best to MANAGE both our lands and our wildlife populations within the co fines of the laws. I've always seen the laws as the guide for all wildlife, but it's our individual practices that allows what's best to work for our respective hunting areas. Same thing goes for public lands too. If I was only hunting on public lands, then have also imposed some of the same harvest restrictions on myself. This was so that I could ensure others had the same opportunities as I had and also so that I hopefully had a successful place to come to again the next season. I primarily hunt deer and turkeys and have always implemented the same types of restrictions on myself for both species. I realize this may not be everyone perspective on this, but this is one way that I have always been able to make hunting enjoyable, see and have the opportunity to harvest more than my fair share of game, and watched the lands I have managed remain solid producers of deer and turkey year-over-year regardless of changes to hunting regulations, natural issues that arise (blue tongue disease, etc), droughts, heavy or light hard/soft mast crop years, etc. I've always felt that as long as I am within the laws, then I should be the primary one making sure I am doing what is right for the land and wildlife population on the land(s) I hunt. And no I don't work for TWRA. I have practiced this since I was born romping and stomping the woods of SE Georgia and have continued it ever since I moved to TN in the early 90s. It's actually the same practice that allowed me to have access to a great piece of private land to hunt for 17 years (until the owners passed away and other family members insisted on selling it at a price that I couldn't afford). One of the main reasons the original owners told me they wanted me there was because of what the previous permission-holders were not doing to manage the land and wildlife. Again, great perspective Telllico4x4! One I hope many others employ (or will begin to employ)!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigDave12, post: 5360922, member: 13595"] Great perspective and great plan. I am happy to hear that instead of just going full bore at harvest allowances, you decided to impose management techniques that assist your hunters, the carrying capacity of the land, the resources of the land available to the wildlife population, and the balance of what’s best for the wildlife population itself. Just because the laws allow one to harvest specific numbers of a species, doesn’t mean we actually HAVE to do that. As hunters and the most important conservationists out there, we should all learn how best to MANAGE both our lands and our wildlife populations within the co fines of the laws. I’ve always seen the laws as the guide for all wildlife, but it’s our individual practices that allows what’s best to work for our respective hunting areas. Same thing goes for public lands too. If I was only hunting on public lands, then have also imposed some of the same harvest restrictions on myself. This was so that I could ensure others had the same opportunities as I had and also so that I hopefully had a successful place to come to again the next season. I primarily hunt deer and turkeys and have always implemented the same types of restrictions on myself for both species. I realize this may not be everyone perspective on this, but this is one way that I have always been able to make hunting enjoyable, see and have the opportunity to harvest more than my fair share of game, and watched the lands I have managed remain solid producers of deer and turkey year-over-year regardless of changes to hunting regulations, natural issues that arise (blue tongue disease, etc), droughts, heavy or light hard/soft mast crop years, etc. I’ve always felt that as long as I am within the laws, then I should be the primary one making sure I am doing what is right for the land and wildlife population on the land(s) I hunt. And no I don’t work for TWRA. I have practiced this since I was born romping and stomping the woods of SE Georgia and have continued it ever since I moved to TN in the early 90s. It’s actually the same practice that allowed me to have access to a great piece of private land to hunt for 17 years (until the owners passed away and other family members insisted on selling it at a price that I couldn’t afford). One of the main reasons the original owners told me they wanted me there was because of what the previous permission-holders were not doing to manage the land and wildlife. Again, great perspective Telllico4x4! One I hope many others employ (or will begin to employ)! [/QUOTE]
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