Hunting, Trapping, and Conservation Working Group
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The HTCWG promotes exploring issues associated with hunting and trapping relative to conservation and management of wildlife resources.
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Hunting, Trapping, and Conservation Working Group Thanks for the follow! I come from an unbroken chain of #hunters. I’ve been #hunting since I was 8. That makes 2018 my 26th #huntingseason. #huntchat #conservation
To most, a screen of colors. To me, the signature of a wild turkey gobble! Months of data collection and analysis lie ahead, but the results will be important to our understanding of turkey behavior Patrick Wightman Bret Collier James Martin Georgia DNR Wildlife
New paper out with Guiming's lab MSU Forest Resources! Annie Farrell as first author! James Martin The National Wild Turkey Federation Wild Turkey Report Machine learning of large‐scale spatial distributions of wild turkeys with high‐dimensional environmental data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
It’s Turkey Tuesday, so here’s something of interest. Roost index values for Eastern toms marked with GPS. Values towards 1 mean birds don’t use same roost on consecutive nights. Take home-most toms roost at a different spot each night. Bret Collier James Martin Wild Turkey Report
Using a sample of 588 radio-tagged bobwhites over 3 years, we are getting annual survival rates ~15% on a hunted site in GA. Grey areas are the days hunting is allowed. We need >20% to increase bob populations. Quail Forever @NBCI_Bobwhite Nebraska Game and Parks Georgia DNR Wildlife @GT_Wann
What is most interesting is the direct harvest rates seem reasonable <20% but the natural mortality during this time decreases. This suggests that the avoidance behavior by coveys can be costly. More on this soon. Quail Forever @NBCI_Bobwhite Nebraska Game and Parks Georgia DNR Wildlife
