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Appreciate your program, thanks for your efforts and education.

Dr Gulsby has the mounted turkey in the background but Dr Lashley shows up with the old school Mossy Oak shirt for the win 😂.Thanks for the work guys

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Congrats on your daughter getting her first deer! I have two kids close to the same age, and some of my favorite memories are from taking them hunting.

Love the videos, they have been a huge source of information and education. Very interested in the day seminar you mentioned for March 8th. Really need details on that asap. I will definitely attend if possible.

I had a 160 acre farm in central Arkansas that was 60% fields. The woods were made up of hickory and oak. No early successional growth. However, I would leave the fields unmowed until after the nesting season. The fields would produce a significant amount of forbs, cold&warm season grasses, wild flowers, and crimson clover. I had counted 70 turkeys in my back field once. During the spring mating season there would typically have four gobblers sounding off at peak times. I sold that farm in 2019. Thankfully I found another 160 acre farm this past fall and am looking forward to implementing a research backed habit improvement plan. I’m really excited to get started. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I'd love to see you guys do a deep dive in the predator removal literature regarding turtles. Lots of similarities, with an emphasis on how much effort is truly needed if you want to make a difference at a single nesting area, let alone a landscape...

Just amazing

Awesome

I'm puzzled. If the burning 🔥 every 4 years YOUR turkey population increases and that's fantastic. But it sounds like the you said the nest raiders have just moved away to raid nests on other lands. Did I miss something?

The NWTF convention in Nashville in February would be a great way to interact with your listeners. Keep up the great work 🦃

Excellent topic, I never imagined that the passenger pigeon had such an effect on habitat. Also, 150 centimeters is about 20 inches, which is a lot. Keep up the good work. I listen to your podcast driving to my property & you’ve definitely had an influence on me changing from standard deer food plots to turkey oriented habitat. I’m in central KY near Mammoth Cave & I just met with our local KY fish & wildlife guy to see about NCRS grants to go along with the forestry TSI funding I applied for, which I got directly from your episode on that . 👍

I have UA-cam premium so I can turn my phone off and just listen while I work

I watched two Chestnut trees perish circa 1970 in WV. I recall checking for worms and eating some of the last nuts.

Sat down for turkey; stayed for chestnuts.

I get wanting to keep hunting to yourself in some aspects, but isn’t introducing the hunting lifestyle to more folks much more beneficial in the long run? I had a dad that deer hunted some and introduced me but I never had much guidance in turkey hunting until I got to college. An older gentleman in town took me under his wing and taught me fishing in my teens. Since his passing I have made it a point to introduce/mentor kids or young adults in hunting, especially turkey hunting. There is nothing like taking a kid and seeing their face the first time they hear a gobble, or have a hen nearly step on their toes. I get more joy from seeing these young hunters take a bird than I do taking it myself.

Good info, ya'll keep it up! 360 gobbles in one morning --- heaven.

Please pronounce acorns correctly so that CC (Closed Captioning) works correctly. Acorns will be invisible to Google Search in the CC transcript.

Interesting discussion, habitat is obviously crucial, but wild turkeys need trees to roost in and water to drink. Otherwise they can make it happen a lot of places. They are in 49 of 50 states and cover an insane variety of habitats. They adapt and survive or move/die off

Responding to your statement regarding several podcasts that are "tangential" to turkey science, possibly my favorite series was the Oaktober series. Thank you for venturing to subjects that are associated, but not directly addressing turkey science. Still can't get the Pilfering Squirrel out of my head. Thanks!

How far from the banding site are most gobblers harvested?

If u randomly select josh morgan.... guaranteed the giveaway will get claimed... just saying

Would live to see a few more examples of in person habitat of proper turkey habitat. What looks good, is too woody, or not herbacous enough. Keep up the good work!!

Listened to every podcast you have. Now that you are on youtube I would love it if you guys could post example pictures of things you talk about, example would be brood or nest habitat. Some of us think we know what it looks like but most likely don't.

Lots to unpack here! But for sure, weather will determine harvest rates here in Louisiana since they hardly ever move the hunting season dates. And, as ya'll stated a Wet or dry Spring can change gobbling/nesting period as much as 2 to 3 weeks and our season is only 4 weeks long.

Habitat and improvement specifically brood and nest. It sounds extremely high maintenance - how do you dummy it up?

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Knowing this is a turkey podcast, many listeners manage for quail, deer, and others. Considering quail and turkey issues can run together, I would like to hear a podcast on quail research, opinions on the correlations between the population declines, and if issues other than habitat have been at play over the last few decades. Disease, hunting, private vs public lands, eye worms, etc. It seems like we can avoid the demise of turkey populations and it may be close to too late for a healthy quail comeback.

Outstanding content laid out really well! Boots on ground looks at the nesting sites was awesome. Even better, seeing the smart and engaged grad students presenting their work. You are a plant identification wizard - please do more closeups as you do that, trying to learn!

The calendar is tops on the list! You mentioned optimal organization of nesting and brooding habitat. Can you show examples? Would like to understand more. Oh - I am in the majority, grow em to hunt em

Lots of interesting information and theory. But there are terms I don’t understand. When you say early succession cover - is that grassland? Crops? Clear cut? Is there a difference between forbs and browse? The 15 percent number is that total acreage? Would there be a difference if it is say a 15 acre field in a 100 acre wood lot and 15 acres of food plot scattered throughout a 109 acre wood lot? Really interesting perspectives! Bo

Your link to the resources isn't working could you pin it? Thank you so much!

What exactly are you talking about with the word forbs

This one was awesome you opened Pandora’s box of questions. Y’all have unlimited amounts of research projects potential. My first question is based on the lack of acorns this year in south west Ms. Our turkey numbers seam to be down from previous years,so our birds will be going into the breading season not in the best of condition. The deer have the food plots at 1-2” tall. When you talk about the Forbes in the area is this related to eating them or for bugging? Also would these Forbes be something that could be purchased to be planted. Looking forward to your next podcast and Happy New Year to all🎉

Really good episode both the hens and gobblers know what they like when they see it and it's because their offspring and species depend on it...and once they find good places in my opinion they more than likely never forget them....😊. This program is going to help shape some really nice projects people do on their land....the facts and figures just keep coming..😮😊😊😊

This cheered me up to hear this crucial work is happening in the USA. Love Nature, Live Nature. ❤

Any chance you have data on altitude influence on peak gobbling or mating activity.

Another hypothesis to study. What effect do predators, e.g., coyotes, bobcats, have on gobbling? Do gobblers gobble less because they are attracting the predators to their call?

I live in northern Indiana and can I burn through black walnut,oak and maple or they no fire tolerant

It's always been illegal to shoot hens in my state. Where are they shooting hens?

Solid fellas. 👊🏼

I identify as David Fulker 😊

Is your research published somewhere that I can read it?

I’m not sure if even explaining the importance of how fire works in ecosystems will really change some peoples opinion on not liking wildfire smoke, up here in Canada in the boreal forests fire is still incredibly important to the ecosystem and they like to just monitor the fires if they’re far enough away from human habitation when they start naturally from lightning strikes in the summer and if they’re not out of control but that decision changes if they are starting to go towards any settlements while out of control or if they were started by accident by humans in which case they try to put the fires out quickly and completely or bring them under enough control so that they don’t burn through towns if it is possible for that to be avoided and with the fire the resulting damage to peoples property and the necessity of large evacuations and rebuilding efforts but everyone in the northern states last summer still complained about how the fires effected the air quality from the huge amounts of smoke blowing south since it was a very prolific fire season and there were fires in practically all of the provinces and territories at the same time for a while, I don’t think most Canadians liked the smoke either and we complain about it too especially if it’s causing health issues but we also all learned about how the boreal forests and fire regeneration work together in school so we understand why it’s an unavoidable fact of life here. I think it’s more likely to be well received if you focus on how healthy forest ecosystems have a variety of different plant species that can benefit from different environments and that those phone-pole pine plantations near towns that city people sometimes mistake as forests don’t actually have as many animal species living in them because it’s a monoculture so by cutting down a few trees or a few dozen trees in a few places to create clearings and leaving some branches and logs there on the forest floor to mimic a tree blowing over, it’s actually improving the living conditions for some of the animals and providing better habitat for the ones who were already living there and improving biodiversity, we had a tornado go there the pine plantation near town a few years ago and it’s incredible how things are so dramatically changing in that area as things are beginning to grow back into the area that was cleared by the blown down pine trees, there used to be no undergrowth but now it’s covered in a huge variety of bushes and small trees now and it’s got some deciduous trees now in addition to the conifers.

This was a fantastic pod cast. If the colleges could print up some type of observation sheet for public check off what they observe on their property. Like our lease we participate in the D-map program we could send in our observations to MSU or wildlife and fisheries. But over the last 5 years we have seen a decline in our over all number of turkeys.

Cicada years might improve turkey reproduction and survivability also because some predators eat insects and small mammals too and other small mammals like rodents would benefit from the increased amount of insects to eat and that would also increase their reproduction success survivability and prevalence on the landscape due to the increased food availability from eating the insects and bugs and those rodents and insects would be easier to catch than a potentially dangerous large bird like a turkey for something like a smaller coyote. Do you think that makes sense?

A good one. Can you imagine walking up on one of those roost spots in the woods lol.

Turkeys are a delicate situation for sure that's what I've always felt....kinda like an hourglass shape good and easy or troublesome but the later is more I think from the effects of this day and age that we need too understand and give the best we can do....good guest...😊 and yea when we had dense number of turkeys the effects could be absorbed but they evolved that way instead off an affliction where they don't have time or space to absorb and lose...

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Maybe precipitation or yearly rainfall could attribute as well