Spring turkey season a primary focus for many DNR officers

Spring turkey season a primary focus for many DNR officers

Here is the weekly report from Department of Natural Resources conservation officers in northwest Minnesota and adjacent areas of northern Minnesota for Monday, April 21, 2025. District 1 - Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) attended annual in-service training at Camp Ripley in the first part of the week. After that, time was spent checking turkey hunters and assisting DNR Wildlife with a dead elk. CO Tony Hams (Warroad North) spent the week c…

Pennsylvania turkey population stabilizes, heading into 2025 spring gobbler season

After declining from its peaks earlier this century, Pennsylvania’s wild turkey population appears to have stabilized — offering hunters some solid opportunities when they head afield in May for spring gobbler season.

Turkey reaping - Farm and Dairy

Several years ago, I was talking turkey hunting with a friend when he mentioned that he’d reaped a nice gobbler in Seneca County, Ohio. I’d thought I’d misheard him, and the dumb expression on my face must have given it away. “R-E-A-P-E-D, reaped,” he spelled. “You know what it is… right?” I felt like I was failing a fourth-grade spelling bee. It seemed apparent that his confidence in his game warden buddy was a bit shaken. There is no shame in …

West Virginia’s spring gobbler season should be typical

FARMINGTON — Over the course of five weeks those who participate in the West Virginia Spring Gobbler hunting season will experience the state’s landscape transformation. As the season opened up