When Craig Harper was a young technician in the late eighties for a state wildlife agency, he felt like little more than a professional mower. “I got on a tractor and dragged around a bush hog from May to September,” he explains. Even though it was nesting and brooding season for rabbits, songbirds, and game birds and fawning season for deer, that was the general prescription for wildlife management. Harper figured there had to be a better way
