Originally Posted By: gobbler
Originally Posted By: ronfromramer
Burning or mowing right now is plain stupid. You'd think that people in the game management business would know that burning or mowing during the primary nesting season is a bad idea


Nice to know my 3 degrees in wildlife/timber management and 30 plus years experience "in the game management business" managing deer, turkeys and quail was such a waste and I am still so stupid! Amazing how that background gets trumped by folks with other career choices making recommendations. We burn up turkey nests on occasion and on the places we do, you would be amazed at the number of turkeys.

A burned nest is NOT simply a burned nest. If you go step on one and crush all the eggs, I would agree - a waste. If it gets destroyed in the process of making or creating better habitat, it is often worth the loss. Natural resource management is not as simple as some of you would like to think.


Gotta agree. There is not one perfect time for all management activities and occasionally there's a little collateral damage.