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.

Thanks everybody for tuning in to Wild Turkey Science.

We have Dr. Mike Chamberlain here,

who's a name most of you probably already know,

but very well-respected scientists in the Turkey world,

and we're really glad to have you, Mike.

Thanks for taking some time to come in and talk to us.

Not a problem.

Glad to join you.

Yeah.

So we're going to continue our conversations related to the season date frameworks.

And we've talked to Mike and a couple of others about this already.

And Mike, you've been leading research in so much of the country and the range of turkeys

and you have had your finger on the pulse of what's going on.

We really just want to talk through, you know, how the season framework could affect productivity and then talk about, you know, some of the related factors and even some of the data that I know you've worked on a lot related to why we're even concerned about productivity across states as well.

I think all of us agree, and we've talked to a couple of others,

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