Wild turkey researchers Mike Chamberlain and Bret Collier join us for a special encore episode of “Cocktails and Conservation” to answer any questions you may have about the majestic wild turkey.
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The Land Between the Lakes
The National Wild Turkey Federation and the U.S. Forest Service at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area work together to improve habitat and public enjoyment through a cooperative stewardship agreement that began in 2008 with the use of stewardship authority. Through stewardship authority, we developed a cooperative agreement where we provide a 20 percent match to USFS appropriated dollars to conduct work on the ground impacting approximately 5,000 acres annually with $200,000 of deliverables each year.
Land Between the Lakes also is an awesome place to hunt. It is 170,000 acres and approximately 163,000 of that is forest. The remaining 7,000 acres is a mixture of corn and soybeans, hay fields, warm season grasses and wildlife plantings where the NWTF plants winter wheat and clover to benefit deer, turkey and a wide variety of other species.
A Turkey Hill Outdoors Film
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Toast to the White Oak
The NWTF is partnering with the American Forest Foundation, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Independent Stave Co. – Log Procurement & Sales, University of Kentucky, and many more stakeholders as part of the White Oak Initiative to help Rescue our White Oak Forests. We risk losing what we thought was a resilient tree species as Regeneration and Recruitment of saplings is failing. This will cause a potential catastrophic change to wildlife communities and native fauna that depend on the White Oak, which is considered as the most ecologically important tree species in the Eastern US.
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NC Wild Turkey Telemetry Study
Join the NWTF, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and North Carolina State University’s College of Natural Resources for a trap-and-release turkey ecology study in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. This three-year collaborative study seeks to understand various wild turkey data, including hunter harvest pressure, nesting patterns and potential diseases, across three distinct regions in North Carolina.
