Land use changes has had more of an effect on the turkey populations in our area than anything else. Those big peanut fields where we use to see flocks of 50 to 75 birds feeding in late winter after a rain are planted in long leaf now. Those huge pines and oaks where turkeys use to roost have long since gone to the saw mill. The dogwoods are mostly all gone, turkeys love dogwood berries. It is not just turkeys. IMO wildlife populations in general are just not what they were. I have been on the same land for 33 years. It has been a long time since I have seen a turkey track on our place.