Unfortunately your 100% correct. Annual loss of habitat is great, beyond an alarming level… crp and open access initiatives do not come close to providing landowners with financial incentives to idle their grounds. We must feed the ethanol machine of America even though it’s a energy negative...
my hunting partner and I harvested 70+ WILD roosters this year. Missed countless…. Flushed hundreds and hundreds. And I don’t live in South Dakota. We average 10-12 miles a hunt… dogs average twice that. Takes a lot of boot leather and dog paws.
I retract my initial advice on staying home without a dog. My apologies for being blunt. I grew up hunting without a dog from 1998-2015. Yes it can be done. Now saying that, I live in a state that has ample opportunity, western Illinois is much different.
You hinted on edge cover and yes that...