Keep in mind…..and I will readily admit……that this 5 years worth of data is really just enough to start seeing some trends and having things come into focus…..Another 5 years from now it’ll much easier to say more definitively…..I’m kinda just measuring the “slope” of the line really…..Some of those southeastern counties have had some pretty big fluctuations too so its kinda hard to call them without a few more years of data……Something tells me though that if they’re heavily impacted by brooding predators then their population growth is probably capped. If we wanted to grow that population we’d have to decrease the brooding predation effect which would decrease the “magnitude” of the wave or the variability .00% as we have it represented.