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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 364501" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>Ok lunker, don't get mad, but you are DEAD WRONG about the hunter access and the problem being the landowners.  The reason I know is because I personally know the landowner where this is going on and have shot turkeys EXACTLY where the netting is being thrown over the turkeys in the picture above.  The landowner is situated in the breaks and ravines that lead to the missouri river so every winter the turkeys migrate from all around the area to the tree covered ravines for protection and they feed in his haypiles.  It happens every year.  He lets most folks hunt whenever they ask, but he has upwards of 300-500 turkeys eating in his haypiles each winter AFTER the season closes.  How do you deal with that?  He uses mostly oat hay and straw which is what grows out there the best and is extremely slippery to handle.  When the turkeys cut the strings by scratching for oats, the entire bale falls apart and once the strings are cut, using a claw bucket doesn't help.  The straw just slips through, so the bale is a total loss.  Each bale is worth about 60 bucks and he loses 75 to 125 bales a year.  I've seen the damage first hand.  The GnF won't let him handle it himself and there isn't a fence they won't fly over.  He's not alone in this situation either.  I've shot turkeys on 4 different ranches in his area and they all have the same number of turkeys on their place wrecking bales.  I don't know the answer to this, but telling a man he has to lose 5k-7k every year to wild turkeys without letting him try to protect them himself or get compensation would turn my face a bit red!  I think the GnF should be using the money they are spending on this project to come up with a way to protect the bales from being destroyed by turkeys and compensating the ranchers for their losses instead of this relocation deal, which in my mind doesn't address the real problem in any way.  Something to ponder folks.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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