One Island Bird Down....

[BOWHUNTER45]

  I knew I would draw gun fire ... could not exspect nothen less .. Whoevers fault it is I could give a rats a-- ... either way I am not getting birds in Skagit & whatcom counties ... and I agree with the whole Rio Deal ... We need easterns ... but its obvious and i know that we will never get any ... Plus now we have every frickin mountain known to man block off I sure in the hell do not want another situation like we had with Pilchuck tree farm ....spend thousands of dollars to plant some and then have them sell off to some animal loving , no hunting organization .... Like I said ...I am happier than hell hunting where I hunt , even though it takes 7 frickin hours to get there..and as far as the game dept ....Well I leave it at that ....and as far as the NWTF at least they tried to get the ball rolling ...not saying they are perfect but they tried ....and as far as Biologists go , we had no one with experience when it came to planting easterns .. Thats why the NWTF sent out a BIO to help out ... ALL I am sure we had Biologists who thought they knew what they were going  but when I hear comments like ..( the turkeys will eat all the frogs ) and on & on THEN I just have to LMFAO !!!!!  pLUS WE GO THREW THIS SAME TOPIC EVERY YEAR ... I RETIRED ... its all good !

[BOWHUNTER45]

THANKS LOKI .... 

[lokidog]

Just one more thing....

From Wikipedia - A feral organism is one that has changed from being domesticated to being wild or untamed. In the case of plants it is a movement from cultivated to uncultivated or controlled to volunteer.

If these were broad breasted bronze turkeys, I would agree that they are feral.  Merriams or easterns that have been transplanted, even ones hatched in captiviity are still wild stock birds.  Every bird in Washington has a hatchery hatched or transplanted bird in its history.

All I know is that I worked hard to get a wild turkey, I don't care about its lineage.  The bonus, I didn't have to drive 5 to 7 hours and burn a crap load of gas.   

[turkeydancer]

BH & WaCent -  Tom Tamer and I were involved with that process and had some good discussions with WaCent  ... got down to the final meeting, and the organic farmers stated a little opposition ... Mick caved big time instead of addressing their concerns.  Now state just wants to sit back except for habitat inhancements statewide ... no trap and transfers, but would rather go in and shoot 100 "excess" birds out of the trees if they get any complaints.  Crushed our brothers in NW Wa who worked so hard to get any turkeys and the sport going up there ... do agree that easterns would be the preferred bird. 
 

Loki - Again congrats ... just meant to inform you was all.