Wild Turkey Science
By Dr. Marcus Lashley & Dr. Will Gulsby
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Wild Turkey Science is a science-based podcast bringing you the latest research on wild turkey ecology and management. This podcast is part of the Natural Resources University podcast network and made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.
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REV and LPDV: New research on turkey disease | #182
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May 04, 2026 |
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You can't manage what you don't measure | #181
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Can Jakes Breed? | #180
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Hunting Stories - Spring 2026 edition | #179
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Next steps in NWTF support of turkey research | #178
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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The Evolution of Turkey Calling: From bone to box | #177
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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The Westervelt Lodge | #176
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Are predators really the problem? | #175
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Has nesting success changed over time? | #174
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Mid-Atlantic Turkey Research Collaborative | #173
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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From Poults to Super Jakes: A year inside the aviary | #172
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Extreme winter and the wild turkey | #171
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Factors influencing SD wild turkey populations | #170
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Are turkeys eating quail? | #169
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Debunking the drowning poults | #168
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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How often you burn matters more than when | #167
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Are fire ants causing the turkey decline? | #166
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Does rain impact nest predation risk? | #165
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Wild Turkey Symposium Takeaways | #164
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Turkeys in Wisconsin : A success story | #163
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Turkeys and Grouse | #162
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Why to Science | #161
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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NEW Online Wild Turkey Training | #160
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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AL results on LPDV in wild turkeys | #159
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Landscape level habitat corridor sustains turkeys | #158
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Restoring the functionally extinct American Chestnut | #157
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Scale of management for wild turkeys | #156
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Managing old fields for turkey | #155
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Managing turkeys on steep terrain | #154
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Decreases in hen survival may explain declines | #153
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Why predator bounties don't work | #152
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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We asked AI why turkeys are declining | #151
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Managing deer for turkeys | #150
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Planting trees for turkeys | #149
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Turning sunlight into gobblers | #148
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Evaluating hardwood timber sales | #147
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Designing your turkey property | #146
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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How to start: Step by step to managing pine timber | #145
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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You should be doing this for turkeys | #144
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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All about firebreaks | #143
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Progress on property management | #142
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Which plants for brooding cover? | #141
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Creating Wild Turkey Manager: Advanced Habitat | #140
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Wild Turkey Manager (Online Course)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Habitat management IS predator management | #139
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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The dominant poult | #138
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Managing nesting & brooding cover | #137
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Recruitment is down, decoys are up | #136
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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It's not just turkeys | #135
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Illumination in the Flatwoods (Lashley edition) | #134
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Fire, predators, & nesting success…oh my! | #133
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May 26, 2025 |
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Status of Rios, Merriam's, & Easterns in OK | #132
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May 19, 2025 |
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A poult's life | #131
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May 12, 2025 |
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Online Wild Turkey Training | #130
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May 05, 2025 |
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FL Wild Turkey Cost-Share program | #129
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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How many gobblers should I hear? | #128
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Decoy use in turkey hunting | #127
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Status of wild turkeys and research in NC | #126
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Home ranges of gobblers | #125
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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What would Lovett do? | #124
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Where do turkeys roost? | #123
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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How habitat helps turkeys: we did the math | #122
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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What does nesting cover look like? | #121
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Fire timing and turkeys ft. Dr. Craig Harper | #120
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Citizen science for turkeys | #119
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Status of the wild turkey in MD | #118
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Status of the wild turkey in GA | #117
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Are you a turkey advocate? | #116
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Lighting the spark: Everything you need to know to start burning | #115
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Listener questions | #114
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Reflections & Ambitions: Big ideas for turkey science | #113
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Managing for gobbling habitat | #112
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Where my gobbles at? | #111
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Population Ecology for Dummies | #110
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Remembering the passenger pigeon | #109
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Turkeys in Kentucky | #108
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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If you own land, cost shares are available to you | #107
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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The American Chestnut: Restoring ecological function | #106
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Are pigs eating all the acorns? | #105
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Turkeys in the Midwest | #104
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Best acorns for wildlife | #103
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Herbicides | #102
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Oak masting research | #101
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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100th Episode Special | #100
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Oak Biology 101 | #99
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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We gotcha, YouTube | #98
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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How pig removal affects turkeys | #97
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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A deep dive into coyotes | #96
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Tree plantings for turkeys | #95
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Food plotting for turkey & deer | #94
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Help us help you | #93
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Want to join the team?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Our thoughts and research to come | #92
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Your burning questions | #91
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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How do I get bugs? | #90
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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A turkey habitat blueprint | #89
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Managing poult habitat & monitoring success | #88
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Little House in the Flatwoods | #87
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Q & A (Round 2) | #86
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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What we learned at Turkey Working Group 2024 | #85
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Food plotting in nature's image | #84
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Fly, float, and mate | #83
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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#WildTurkeyHistory | #82
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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SD Research Update: Major constraints and BMPs | #81
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Managing pine rotations for turkeys | #80
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May 27, 2024 |
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Conventional vs. Regenerative Ag | #79
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May 20, 2024 |
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If not the season, what's the reason? | #78
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May 13, 2024 |
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Season timing doesn't affect reproduction | #77
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May 06, 2024 |
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Harvest rates and season dates | #76
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Do dominant gobblers dominate breeding? | #75
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Do turkeys lek and does it matter? | #74
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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We got bug problems | #73
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Fire timing in upland hardwoods | #72
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Life for a gobbler | #71
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Turkey disease ecology | #70
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Up close and personal with wild turkeys | #69
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Longer the snood, bigger the brood | #68
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Gobbler survival across the south | #67
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Habitat management = predator management | #66
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Snoods, feathers, and the Turkey Brotherhood | #65
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The habitat vs. predator stalemate | #64
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Habitat vs. predator control | #63
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Habitat for the hatch | #62
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Science-based solutions for long-term sustainability | #61
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Prioritizing management efforts | #60
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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What we've learned and where we're going | #59
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Managing bottomland hardwoods for turkeys (Part 2/2) | #58
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Managing bottomland hardwoods for turkeys (Part 1/2) | #57
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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NE Update: Year 1 results | #56
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Findings from AL and upcoming research | #55
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Thanksgiving Special | #54
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Managing hardwoods for turkeys (Part 2/2) | #53
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Managing hardwoods for turkeys (Part 1/2) | #52
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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How important are hardwoods to turkeys? | #51
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Legends of turkey research | #50
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Managing hardwoods: Oak biology | #49
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Feeding…the positives? | #48
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Lessons from the NE prairie | #47
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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What we know about the effects of feeders on wild turkeys | #46
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Corn Nation | #45
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Can conservation governance save turkeys? (Part 2/2) | #44
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Can conservation governance save turkeys? (Part 1/2) | #43
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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MO research update (Part 2/2) | #42
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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MO research update (Part 1/2) | #41
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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TX state update | #40
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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What not to do | #39
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Shooting gobblers: which one, how many, and when? | #38
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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How to science | #37
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Q & A | #36
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Land & Legacy | #35
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Turkey Working Group recap | #34
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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MO update | #33
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Which plants? | #32
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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What is TFT about? | #31
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Brooding and nesting cover (Part 2/2) | #30
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Brooding and nesting cover (Part 1/2) | #29
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May 29, 2023 |
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Status of turkeys in FL (Part 2/2) | #28
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May 22, 2023 |
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Status of turkeys in FL (Part 1/2) | #27
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May 15, 2023 |
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Wild turkey populations in PA (Part 2/2) | #26
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May 08, 2023 |
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Wild turkey populations in PA (Part 1/2) | #25
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May 01, 2023 |
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What's changed in MS? (Part 2/2) | #24
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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What's changed in MS? (Part 1/2) | #23
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Bonus episode | #22
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Has turkey habitat changed? | #21
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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OK update (Part 2/2): Reproductive ecology of Rios and Easterns | #20
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Burning during nesting | #19
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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OK update (Part 1/2): Reproductive ecology of Rios and Easterns | #18
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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What we learned from density dependence | #17
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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AL update: Is there a dominant gobbler? | #16
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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A different perspective on density dependence | #15
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Density-dependence in upland game birds | #14
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Which vital rates are most important to turkey populations? | #13
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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I lease land…what about me? | #12
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Which turkey predators? | #11
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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NC research update: Largest private land turkey study | #10
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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So, you think you know nest predators? | # 09
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Effectiveness of trapping across game bird species | #08
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The science on trapping | #07
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Turkey predators | #06
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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You've got questions, here are our answers | #05
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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What did we learn about the role of season frameworks? | #04
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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How could season frameworks affect wild turkey populations? ft. Dr. Mike Chamberlain | #03
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Wild turkey population dynamics and what the manipulative study of season dates in Mississippi tells us about the role of hunting, ft. Adam Butler | #02
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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What does the ongoing wild turkey research in Tennessee tell us about the impacts of season timing? ft. Dr. Craig Harper | #01
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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What is Wild Turkey Science about? | #00
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Trailer | Wild Turkey Science
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Jan 20, 2023 |