Since 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation has invested over half a billion dollars into wildlife conservation and has conserved or enhanced over 22 million acres of critical wildlife habitat.

The Merriam's wild turkey is a true mountain bird. Named for the prolific taxonomist and zoologist C. Hart Merriam, these birds range from higher-elevation ponderosa pine forests in winter time to ...

Now the Florida subspecies of wild turkey is thought to range from 80,000 to 100,000 turkeys, but the state lacks precise, up-to-date data on the bird's numbers.

Object Details Author Dickson, James G National Wild Turkey Federation (U.S.) United States Forest Service Notes "A National Wild Turkey Federation and USDA Forest Service book." Contents ...

In a 2021 study, eight out of 30 states surveyed reported that turkey populations declined from 2014 to 2019, with some of the sharpest decreases in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

Since that population peak, wild turkey numbers have fallen, declining some 15 percent between 2004-2014 and another 3 percent between 2014-2019. Biologists are struggling to determine why.

The plantings are aimed at ensuring wild turkeys continue to thrive in southwest Colorado, said G. Russell Means, local turkey federation chapter president. "This isn't for hunting, it's strictly ...

While the Rio Grande turkey translocation was successful, the return of the eastern turkey was limited and required the department to reassess their stocking strategies beginning in the 1990s.

Wild turkeys are common on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Their numbers are decreasing across the U.S. as open spaces and habitats dwindle. See the full story on page 3.

In 2022, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources launched a 10-year study looking into the wild turkey population in southeast Iowa to try to determine why it’s declining. Dan Kaminski, a ...

The wild turkey’s continuing success story in Berkshire County may partly hinge on the behavior of humans to keep the state’s official game bird, well, wild. Habitat loss caused the downfall of the ...