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Sloan said the state’s wild turkey population appears to have peaked around 2006 with an estimated 23,000. The population has declined slightly since then and is now stable.

Encouragingly, more should follow: two-thirds of extinct in the wild animals and just under a quarter of extinct in the wild plants have already been released back to natural habitats.

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the habitats of species at risk.

Animals including the wild turkey declined rapidly as the trees were felled, with additional pressure from over-hunting. Eventually, the wild turkey's population in Vermont was completely wiped out.