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Fewer turkeys- debate- over a decade of harvest numbers....
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<blockquote data-quote="Boll Weevil" data-source="post: 5326364" data-attributes="member: 10006"><p>This may splitting hairs and way more detail than most care about but also consider birds/sq. mi. (or birds/huntable sq. mi.) in the context of not only urban/metropolitan areas but habitat loss. In TN you can basically carve out urban/suburban and some delta farmland, for example. Birds don't roost on skyscrapers in downtown Nashville and you could probably count trees per sq. mi. in some areas of the MS river delta on 1 hand. No roost trees = no turkeys.</p><p></p><p>When you cut that ground out of the equation it becomes even more startling the decline, in what should be otherwise prime habitat. With the exception of the major metros, the SE is pretty darn rural. Reduce the population by 1/2 or even 1/4 it's not hard to notice the decline. Just like during MOs heyday I also hunted the lowcountry of SC which at the time had a 5 bird limit. AL, GA, even AR had liberal limits and long seasons. </p><p></p><p>You'd think development and urban sprawl might actually cram turkeys into the remaining habitat and what suitable ground was left would be bustin' at the seams. Not so. All the while killing the same average number of toms/yr.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boll Weevil, post: 5326364, member: 10006"] This may splitting hairs and way more detail than most care about but also consider birds/sq. mi. (or birds/huntable sq. mi.) in the context of not only urban/metropolitan areas but habitat loss. In TN you can basically carve out urban/suburban and some delta farmland, for example. Birds don't roost on skyscrapers in downtown Nashville and you could probably count trees per sq. mi. in some areas of the MS river delta on 1 hand. No roost trees = no turkeys. When you cut that ground out of the equation it becomes even more startling the decline, in what should be otherwise prime habitat. With the exception of the major metros, the SE is pretty darn rural. Reduce the population by 1/2 or even 1/4 it's not hard to notice the decline. Just like during MOs heyday I also hunted the lowcountry of SC which at the time had a 5 bird limit. AL, GA, even AR had liberal limits and long seasons. You'd think development and urban sprawl might actually cram turkeys into the remaining habitat and what suitable ground was left would be bustin' at the seams. Not so. All the while killing the same average number of toms/yr. [/QUOTE]
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