Here's a hard fact for anyone to get around…….What many of these plantations just found out is that it doesn’t matter if you have 5000 acres if Bullock Co doe harvest jumps from 1900 to 2900……That bigger picture doe harvest is the real controlling factor for everyone……..And so if it doesn’t matter if you have a 5000 acre plantation then it really doesn’t matter for every other landowner in Alabama……You better be paying attention to and understanding what really matters for your location……What’s occurring on a county level matters
I know you and I disagree on a lot, but we agree on some too. I’ve been trying to get ppl to understand that when these larger landowners begin to realize they can no longer manage their deer herd effectively, one of four things will happen. The first is a fence going up. The second is selling the property, and likely in smaller parcels just to get it sold. Third, they’ll stop sinking money into habitat work. Fourth, they’ll stop caring about managing the deer herd and blasting away with everyone else. In NONE of those scenarios do the state residents or the resource win. It’s going to happen if current regs don’t change. When these larger landowners stop providing smaller landowners with deer they’ll change their tune.
