Turned Back

Finally headed up to Connecticut Hills--an 11,000 acre wildlife area roughly 15 minutes from my house--yesterday only to find the roads are still snowed over. Only made it in about two hundred yards before having to turn around. I'm guessing it will be another two weeks or so before the roads clear and I can make it in there to do some scouting, which isn't too troubling since I possess some vague familiarity with the area from hunting this past Fall for deer.

As it turns out, on the way back home my girlfriend and I saw a sign for the Arnot Forest, which is owned by Cornell Plantations and managed as a "working forest," meaning in addition to research it is also actively managed for resource production (timber, maple syrup, mycology, etc). It is part of Cornell's Earn-a-Buck program, which apparently has made some unfavorable changes for 2011, and is one of the few, if not the only, Cornell land holdings where hunting for game other than deer is permissible (I think). You must register with Cornell, which I did this past Fall, to hunt the land and all state laws are still applicable. I still need to do some research but if this land is open to turkey hunting I will likely put some effort into learning its ins and outs. If nothing else, I can hit it on my way back from CHills.