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UC Outdoors: Turkey Hunting Season Is Almost Here

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This week on Upper Cumberland Outdoors... Host Brad Halfacre visits with Casey Mullen, with the TWRA talking about a project to help the turkey population before the hunting season begins. They discuss how much predation or habitat loss plays into effect with the turkey population, when the effort really started to get the turkey population numbers on the rise, and keeping an eye out for any changes that have been made in the hunting & fishing guides that come out this summer.

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2 Mar 2024 English United States Wilderness · Leisure

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