The most valuable trees from a habitat or particularly a hunting standpoint are often the most valuable trees.

From a market standpoint, white oak may comprise 50 to 60 percent of a stand in some cases.

And if the landowner says, don't touch my white oaks, there's not much we can do commercially.

And for that matter,

there's not a lot of benefit we can offer to the understory if we're retaining 60% of the

overstory. Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow.

I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida.

And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University.

We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting, managing,

and researching wild turkeys.

In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field,

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Jordan, we don't get to see each other that much, but we saw each other in North Carolina here a couple weeks ago.

Right.

And that was right at the same time that we started getting a lot of folks asking us questions about, you know, how do we actually get this done?

You know, I hear you. I know we need to cut some timber. I know we need to,

you know, to get sunlight on the ground. We need to burn, you know, all these things. But

folks have started asking us to do episodes more on, you know, some of the practical considerations I guess like what how do I actually

get somebody on my land what do I need to be on the lookout for and you know after

hanging out with you in North Carolina just dawned on me you know what this

is what Jordan does for a living so that'd be great and uh you know that's

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