Originally Posted by gobbler
Turkey home ranges are around 2-3,000 acres. Some of these places are 15,000 acres. Using the term "nesting grounds" and "draw in the birds for nesting". If you don't know that it doesn't work like that, you don't know turkeys (except for barnyard turkeys of which you seem to be an expert). Turkeys have a home range and they stay in it mostly. If you want to manage for turkeys you have to have all the habitat types within that area managed correctly. They don't move miles to go to "the nesting grounds" like a friggin crane.


Noone is talking about turkeys migrating like "friggin cranes".......I'm talking about each hen across the landscape moving within her 2,000-3,000 acre home range of ALL habitats to the blocks that are being burned because those are the stands with the best nesting cover. I imagine the hens are likely heavily concentrating within these burn stands during this time of year

Just out of curiosity......Do the quail plantations care if you burn during quail nesting season??

Originally Posted by gobbler
That being said, even on the most intensley burned wildife property in this area,, AT MOST, 40% of the ground is burned in any given year leaving 60% unburned, Plenty of "nesting ground".


Does 100% of the property have to be burned during nesting to cause an impact to productivity?? You're saying that 30% - 40% is just insignificant? That's a pretty big assumption dont you think?? We're not just talking about burning 30 or 40% of the total land mass....We're talking about 30-40% of the nesting cover.


Lets circle back around again now to the idea of burning the quail plantations Oct-Jan.

If we were to look at our probabilities for natural ignition from lightening…..When would likely have the highest probabilities of the year??......Late summer early fall, right???.....Our driest months with the highest amount of lightening strikes. When do quail nest…..May-Sept ......Turkeys March-May……..Is it just a coincidence that these birds are nesting outside of the most likely time for natural fire??

Earlier you said that you couldn’t burn during that time because it would take away all of the hunting cover but yet you just said that at most there is 40% burned….and plenty of cover left as you described……So isn’t there still enough to hunt then too??.....I don’t see why it wouldn’t work except for deer hunter whining a little at first…..I think what folks would find though would be that a late summer/early fall burn would be a deer magnet as the little plant shoots started popping back out.

Last edited by CNC; 03/12/22 03:05 PM.
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