RE: be praise pa Game Comm (in reply to bowhunt05)
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Deaddeer: As I recall it was the biologists from the PGC that said turkeys needed big woods to survive. saying that farmland would not support turkeys.
IT WAS the NWTF that brought the turkey levels to where they are today in that farmland. and it was NWTF $$ that did it not the PGC although the PGC took the credit for it.
The NWTF did not conduct the trap and transfer operations that expanded the range of the turkeys in PA, just as the PGC was not responsible for the expansion of the deer range in PA. But, the PGC is still managing both species as if they both only used forested habitat. We now have more turkeys than pheasants in 5C and we may even have more turkeys than deer ,but the PGC manages both species as if they only lived in forested habitat.