I really hope that will happen but it's probably only a pipe dream.
Having an individual cooperative for every county in the state would definitely take some doing but just to form a single cooperative for a single county like Macon or Bullock wouldn’t really be all that hard……All you need is one or two of the big players in the game to get the ball rolling and then someone like me who travels around and talks to hunters to “recruit” properties……. ……
Again, with something like “not shooting does” you dont need a majority to participate…..It only takes a small percentage of folks to be able to push the pendulum between…….. growth……stable…….decline…….one whicha way or another if everyone is on the same page……..For example, if we go with our Bullock Co model where <1700…….1800-2200……>2300…….was our harvest numbers to plug into that pendulum……you really only need control of about 400 does to start influencing the swing which is 20% of the total……Just the few plantations I mentioned already have a good bit of that accounted for already…..If they continue to NOT shoot those 400 does and maybe get a few more folks on board where that total doe harvest dips below a certain threshold……then at some point population growth will begin to occur……Eventually that same group of folks could decide to start shooting a few again one day and shut growth off and maybe be a little more conservative about doe killing moving forward knowing that they are tipping the scales.