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<blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 62412" data-attributes="member: 1485">What he said! Good grief, guys. I'm all for whacking as many Wile-E's as you can, but you will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, kill enough of them to replace what has been lost through decreased habitat acres. SE ND is case-in-point. The only habitat available for anything through the winter months are standing cattails (which get burned), tree rows (which are getting dozed) and rivers/streams (which account for very little). Milder winters will definitely help, but what happens when the bad winters return and the deer/pheasants have nowhere to shelter? History will repeat itself. No way around it. Mild winters give us false hope on the carrying capacity of the land. Try a couple feet of snow and a good month of below zero weather and THEN watch what happens to all the deer and pheasants...Incentivize landowners/farmers to keep marginal land in cover, promote buffer strips and get some of the tree rows back. They ain't gonna do it on their own. Gotta grease the palms a bit. Cue GST in 3, 2, 1...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Duckslayer100, post: 62412, member: 1485"] What he said! Good grief, guys. I'm all for whacking as many Wile-E's as you can, but you will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, kill enough of them to replace what has been lost through decreased habitat acres. SE ND is case-in-point. The only habitat available for anything through the winter months are standing cattails (which get burned), tree rows (which are getting dozed) and rivers/streams (which account for very little). Milder winters will definitely help, but what happens when the bad winters return and the deer/pheasants have nowhere to shelter? History will repeat itself. No way around it. Mild winters give us false hope on the carrying capacity of the land. Try a couple feet of snow and a good month of below zero weather and THEN watch what happens to all the deer and pheasants... Incentivize landowners/farmers to keep marginal land in cover, promote buffer strips and get some of the tree rows back. They ain't gonna do it on their own. Gotta grease the palms a bit. Cue GST in 3, 2, 1... [/QUOTE]

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