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, and address the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management.

Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science.

October.

I'm not doing that again.

Don't even try to bait me into it.

Well, I'm excited about this episode today like I am all the episodes.

I love that you say that for every single one.

I mean, it's like kind of one of those throwaway lines that helps you get going.

You know what I'm saying?

Sometimes the hardest thing to say is the first thing you say.

Yeah, I agree with that.

But it's a listener requested episode that seems pretty popular.

So we've got the whole month where we focused on oaks, and we're going to talk about oak management some than this one, but I think it might get a little more broad than that, because we've had, like you said, consistently people asking us to cover herbicides in more detail.

Right. So some of that might apply to oak management.

Some of it might apply to other

other systems, but yeah, I think this is a good one. It's, it's time to cover it. We've probably

getting asked about this as much as anything else. Yeah. And we're probably going to go into

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