Facts being stated above….and given the title of the post.

I think there are a lot of factors that affect our flocks. Do I hold the opinion that killing those last 2 gobblers is what caused the disappearance of a whole flock on 4K acres that connects to 36k acres? No

But I do believe it had a significant contribution. I think this area could hold turkeys, it just doesn’t have them to hold once they were gone. There’s suitable habitat there….but I think that the combination of flooding, land management practices that allowed the fields to grow up on the north and east side, combined with new predators, combined with killing those two gobblers and potentially followed by a poor hatch season did this area in.

The last two killed here were the last two I know about and that was 1989.

I hope we get a better understanding of what’s happening to our turkeys in this country before they are gone the way of the quail. Hopefully none of you have to experience not having birds on your land anymore like I have had to. I remember hearing those birds that spring. They were the first wild turkeys I ever heard.