Thing is, I DON'T live too far from him (I live in simcoe now, & Before that I lived in St. Williams!)
I Also see lots of swans near Townsend, and in the fields around Courtland, where I work, so if you add them all up, the numbers are definitely there
I'm FAR from a city boy Donald86, I spend a lot of time down in longpoint and know that when you see field after field of tundras (way more than 2500!), that the population has risen a lot since I started hunting long point ( 20+yrs.)
Also the snow geese that you mentioned are legal to shoot already, not really sure what they have to do with a proposed swan hunt ????
As for the turkeys....I only have permission to hunt the field, farmer doesn't own any of the woods, so turkeys that do roost in the woods, head directly towards the other side of where I hunt because of the easier meal ticket (ie: oak trees, wild grasses, and a big winter wheat field)
It's not as if there is a proposal to open up a full-blow season,the proposal is for a tag system season that is a completely controlled season