The eastern wild turkey is North America's most abundant and widely distributed turkey subspecies. It inhabits 38 states and a handful of Canadian provinces. Most eastern turkeys are found east of ...

Nevertheless, that’s not really achievable for folks inside Route 128. “In the eastern part of the state here, certainly there’s no safe place to hunt turkeys,” said Pinney.

In a Popular Science magazine article in 2017, the PGC turkey biologist admitted that the agency had no idea that the eastern wild turkey population was dramatically decreasing in Penn’s Woods.