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From Dr. Harpers lips to your ears... Must listen.
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy S." data-source="post: 5887843" data-attributes="member: 131"><p>Difference as in how the later start date or earlier start has anything to do with predators. Maybe that was not the point, but here is my point about predators as a whole across the State.</p><p></p><p>Predators are a constant and will remain a constant UNLESS someone or a team of someones trap feverishly FOREVER. Simply unrealistic in the grand scheme of things. People/hunters are too busy as it is and trapping is not a priority to 99.5% of hunters. When I was in Ames, some researchers from a huge southern plantation briefed us at our annual dinner on their coyote trapping research. The bottom line was their hunting club/ plantation paid good money to have dedicated trappers trap for a few years with incredible results for a short period of time. Coyote population declined and the fawn recruitment exploded <strong><u>during that time</u></strong>. Here's the rub: as soon as the funding/trapping stopped, the coyotes moved back in and things were "back to normal" in short order. A very short term expensive improvement <strong><u>that was not sustainable due to the cost.</u></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy S., post: 5887843, member: 131"] Difference as in how the later start date or earlier start has anything to do with predators. Maybe that was not the point, but here is my point about predators as a whole across the State. Predators are a constant and will remain a constant UNLESS someone or a team of someones trap feverishly FOREVER. Simply unrealistic in the grand scheme of things. People/hunters are too busy as it is and trapping is not a priority to 99.5% of hunters. When I was in Ames, some researchers from a huge southern plantation briefed us at our annual dinner on their coyote trapping research. The bottom line was their hunting club/ plantation paid good money to have dedicated trappers trap for a few years with incredible results for a short period of time. Coyote population declined and the fawn recruitment exploded [B][U]during that time[/U][/B]. Here's the rub: as soon as the funding/trapping stopped, the coyotes moved back in and things were "back to normal" in short order. A very short term expensive improvement [B][U]that was not sustainable due to the cost.[/U][/B] [/QUOTE]
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