If we can get people to widespread understand this and adopt these things, I mean, we're potentially talking about substantial increases on turkey productivity across the landscape.

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Music Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science. Well, I think that we are good to go now, as far as I can tell.

Now I just have to make sure that dot-by-by the rules of the road while trying to podcast.

Don't get pulled over.

Yeah.

Well, I guess I'll start the conversation with this.

I have said on a number of occasions something along the lines that habitat management is anti-preditor management.

Right.

And I don't know if people, if it resonates with people exactly why I would say that.

And, you know, I think the thing that most people go to immediately is, oh, if you

have better nesting cover or brooding cover, the hen is more able to avoid predation because

she has better ways to escape it, right? Or avoid being detected.

Exactly.

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