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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 5060867" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>I get the feeling that most of the commissioners have never seen them either because they never discuss them. But we have reliable, empirical poult survey data going back to the early 80s. It is summarized in the Summer Survey from last year (<a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/hunting/Wild-Turkey-Summer-Survey-Report-19-20.pdf" target="_blank">LINK</a>). There will always be little ebbs and flows from year to year, but it's startling on a graph and it's startling to look at the 5 year averages.</p><p></p><p>Every time the turkey management subject comes up, they want to focus on the harvest numbers consistently exceeding 30,000, but they never address the important side of the equation. I love killing turkeys, so I'm all for consistent harvest numbers. But consistently killing 30,000 is only a good thing if we produce enough turkeys to support that harvest. For the last several years, <strong>we are not producing enough turkeys to support the harvest numbers.</strong></p><p></p><p>If someone makes $100,000 per year, and spends $80,000, great. Relatively comfortable life a saving a little every year. If by some unfortunate circumstance, that person starts making $65,000, but keeps spending $80,000, they're going to have problems soon. It could be addressed early on. Just make a few sacrifices here and there and live within your means. But if you ignore it, you'll dig a hole you can't climb out of.</p><p></p><p>Tennessee's turkey management is this scenario. But no one making decisions will acknowledge that we're making less than we use to. So we keep spending the same and ignoring the problem. And if someone points out that there sure seems to be fewer turkeys around than there were a few years ago, they just point to all the turkeys we kill every year as justification for killing that many turkeys. It's infuriating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 5060867, member: 10399"] I get the feeling that most of the commissioners have never seen them either because they never discuss them. But we have reliable, empirical poult survey data going back to the early 80s. It is summarized in the Summer Survey from last year ([URL='https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/twra/documents/hunting/Wild-Turkey-Summer-Survey-Report-19-20.pdf']LINK[/URL]). There will always be little ebbs and flows from year to year, but it’s startling on a graph and it’s startling to look at the 5 year averages. Every time the turkey management subject comes up, they want to focus on the harvest numbers consistently exceeding 30,000, but they never address the important side of the equation. I love killing turkeys, so I’m all for consistent harvest numbers. But consistently killing 30,000 is only a good thing if we produce enough turkeys to support that harvest. For the last several years, [B]we are not producing enough turkeys to support the harvest numbers.[/B] If someone makes $100,000 per year, and spends $80,000, great. Relatively comfortable life a saving a little every year. If by some unfortunate circumstance, that person starts making $65,000, but keeps spending $80,000, they’re going to have problems soon. It could be addressed early on. Just make a few sacrifices here and there and live within your means. But if you ignore it, you’ll dig a hole you can’t climb out of. Tennessee’s turkey management is this scenario. But no one making decisions will acknowledge that we’re making less than we use to. So we keep spending the same and ignoring the problem. And if someone points out that there sure seems to be fewer turkeys around than there were a few years ago, they just point to all the turkeys we kill every year as justification for killing that many turkeys. It’s infuriating. [/QUOTE]
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