Thanks for posting. I’ve heard most all of that before. I disagree with a lot you and her said. I think habitat is a slight to moderate player (5-10%), unidentified disease is the king player (85-95%), and hunting season dates for killing Toms is still sitting right at 0.0000%.
To the ultra smart biologists: quit with the “gobbling activity” crap. News flash: they quit gobbling so much when you hunt them hard! Gobbling activity means absolutely nothing to poult recruitment even though you all need it to for your far fetched theories. I can tell you that without spending a dime. Use some common sense you buncha’ dopes!
Also, please quit with the “late burning is fine” lies. Common sense…
I wish a good biologist with a voice and mind of their own would emerge! I may start a gofundme to put someone with a brain through school to combat these dingbats.
I think sometimes it gets too "scientific " when the data pool is small. Turkeys are not an adaptive species and a nest season burn will wipe out a seasons worth of potential nests. It only takes two bad years to wipe turkeys out of an area and wirh the fractured habitat it is unlikely they will quickly repopulate those areas quickly.Thanks for posting. I’ve heard most all of that before. I disagree with a lot you and her said. I think habitat is a slight to moderate player (5-10%), unidentified disease is the king player (85-95%), and hunting season dates for killing Toms is still sitting right at 0.0000%.
To the ultra smart biologists: quit with the “gobbling activity” crap. News flash: they quit gobbling so much when you hunt them hard! Gobbling activity means absolutely nothing to poult recruitment even though you all need it to for your far fetched theories. I can tell you that without spending a dime. Use some common sense you buncha’ dopes!
Also, please quit with the “late burning is fine” lies. Common sense…
I wish a good biologist with a voice and mind of their own would emerge! I may start a gofundme to put someone with a brain through school to combat these dingbats.
Probably the same “common sense”he used to discredit your colleagues.What are you basing your disease theory on? Just curious.
Emily Rushton has Bachelors and Masters degrees in wildlife biology from UGA and is the wildlife biologist for the DNR Georgia Turkey Project. I will tend to side with her when the discussion topic is wild turkeys in Georgia.
What are you basing your disease theory on? Just curious.
Probably the same “common sense”he used to discredit your colleagues.
I think sometimes it gets too "scientific " when the data pool is small. Turkeys are not an adaptive species and a nest season burn will wipe out a seasons worth of potential nests. It only takes two bad years to wipe turkeys out of an area and wirh the fractured habitat it is unlikely they will quickly repopulate those areas quickly.
I found a study from the 90s talking about pesticides having an impact on the populations as well.
Well I enjoyed your interview and her answers
Couldn't agree more. I enjoyed this interview and her answers despite what the armchair biologist might say
I’m not hating on you. I just prefer to leave it up to the biologist’s. My anecdotal insight from one or 2 properties isn’t scientific at all. It’s just what I see. We have a good turkey population on my lease. Not as many as 20 years ago but we have a lot more hogs now to than we did 20 years ago. I believe hogs get a good number of nests there. Nobody traps predators on our lease either.Hate on me if you will, but they don’t have the data to back up the bull crap yet.
What are you basing your disease theory on? Just curious.
They’ve been burning on cedar creek since early February. I was down through there last weekend and seen a bunch of burnt areas. Maybe they’re done for the season thereIts interesting how all of these turkey studies ignore or skirt topics that are tied to the almighty dollar:
- Late season burns...last week of April on cedar creek for example........nope, timber industry.
- Chicken manure/disease/worm theory........nope, poultry/agriculture industry.
- Male Decoys and the "dominant toms dying theory".....nope, hunting retail industry.
I would love to see an accredited UGA biologist studying these theories debunk any of these. Sadly i doubt we ever will as a wild turkey stands no chance to the almighty dollar, no?
Ps how do i remove this stupid "uaec" thing from my profile name and replace it with uga?