That's awesome. The WIHA program really is a shining beacon of private-public cooperation. Hopefully the added lands are in one of my two deer units out west.
I seriously doubt you'll see any less hunters. If CPW followed precedent, the number of draw tags will be very similar to the number of OTC hunters. Either way, good luck and enjoy the beautiful terrain.
I believe that place gets hit hard with shed hunters. My wife drew a spring turkey tag a few years ago and it seemed shed hunters were every where, on foot and horseback.
The draw tag has always been valid for statewide OTC area.
I'm assuming by shortening the hunts they in turn increased the number of hunts, in turn increasing the number of tags.
The legs and thighs work very well in a pressure cooker. I wish my roommate and I had one in grad school as it makes me cringe thinking about all the perfectly good meat we wasted by simply breasting the birds.
A couple weeks ago my wife discovered two bags of crane thighs and legs labeled...