Prescribed burns?? Really, does this give anyone confidence that these guys know what they are talking about?? Wow!

Show me where an overharvest of gobblers was noted in reasons for decline in your cited projects? If it wasn't a reason for the decline then why offer it for a solution? Why not address the reasons they cite like predators, baiting, disease, etc? How about making habitat better so they have higher nest success and poult survival?

How about this theory - restocked wildlife inhabiting uninhabited but good quality habitat have a huge surge in population. This continues until all the habitat is finally taken up and often the population overshoots "normal" population numbers or carrying capacity. This rule applies whether it is a section of land or a State. Just takes longer with a State. Usually this abnormally high population takes a dive from some cause and never completly recovers to its past days of glory because the population was artificially inflated. After that it assumes a more "normal" population that fluctuates from year to year based on annual conditions. This is pretty common with restored critters that were wiped out and maybe turkeys are getting to a population we can expect. We have seen this with restored quail populations pretty regular as seen in this graph.



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