I live in Alabama and my backyard borders the national forest. For the last 3 years in the month of April, the leptons in charge decide to control burn half the mountain. I guess they think the hens can pick up their nests, and eggs, and move away from the fire.

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Posted by deeprig9

Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 3/18/23 at 7:49 pm to ml

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I live in Alabama and my backyard borders the national forest. For the last 3 years in the month of April, the leptons in charge decide to control burn half the mountain. I guess they think the hens can pick up their nests, and eggs, and move away from the fire.

Georgia did this last year, maybe the year before, in one of the best Turkey WMA's in the state. They admitted it would pretty much kill off the turkeys on that WMA, but long term, they said it would be better habitat and the turkerys would be better than ever. Total insane bullshite. If you have a WMA with turkeys all over the place, leave it alone. If you have a WMA that sucks for turkeys, and you want to do a burn experiment, then fine. People in charge of things are so fricking stupid.

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Posted by Cowboyfan89

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Posted on 3/18/23 at 8:23 pm to ml

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I live in Alabama and my backyard borders the national forest. For the last 3 years in the month of April, the leptons in charge decide to control burn half the mountain. I guess they think the hens can pick up their nests, and eggs, and move away from the fire.

Unless they are idiots, chances are the areas they burned had little to no turkey nests.

Plenty of research out there that shows nesting drops off significantly in areas 3 or more years removed from a burn--that is, the areas most often targeted for burns.

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