Iowa Natural Resources Dept.: Researchers Looking for Insight Into Wild Turkey Population Decline
January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024
DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release:
The reintroduction of wild turkeys to Iowa's landscape has been celebrated as a conservation success story for the past 25 years. But Iowa's turkey population is showing troubling signs: the numbers are down, nests are failing and fewer poults are surviving. And it's not just an Iowa problem - turkey populations are declining in all states in the Midwest a . . .
The reintroduction of wild turkeys to Iowa's landscape has been celebrated as a conservation success story for the past 25 years. But Iowa's turkey population is showing troubling signs: the numbers are down, nests are failing and fewer poults are surviving. And it's not just an Iowa problem - turkey populations are declining in all states in the Midwest a . . .