As a forester and turkey hunter I will say that the densest turkey populations I have ever seen on a regular basis were in intensively Managed IP pine plantations in Baldwin County and in intensively managed Weyerhauser pine plantations in Clarke County. These were large tracts with the same forest management practices applied across the whole tract. IP tracts in this area of Baldwin County were infamous for having crappy SMZ's but the turkeys flourished nonetheless. With that said, I really don't think that forest management practices in general should be targeted as the reason for the decline in turkey numbers. I also believe that if I have enough turkeys to kill five, then I am most likely killing the surplus. If the DCNR drops the limit to three, I fear that they world not increase back to five when the populations were to increase. I say leave it at five.