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.

Man, we've just getting, we've gotten blown up with all these, these, uh, questions and everything.

And one of the, you know, a while ago, I guess a couple weeks ago, we, we polled the audience, looked for questions.

And one thing that kept surfacing and that was a really popular question and comment was

basically could we walk people through the process that we're going through?

And I think that is from a multiple

perspectives of what does the process look like to develop a research experiment? Where does a

question come from? How is the funding work? How's the interaction with the state agency

and the university happening? And then also more practical things related to what was the process we go through to

design a robust study to evaluate some kind of hypothesis or objective.

So I guess with that, we wanted to devote an episode to it.

I thought, and I think you agree, I thought this would be a really fun one.

Because this is one of the things that I really love about the job is trying to come up with clever ways to isolate

variables of interest to to solve problems.

And, uh, or at least get enough information to make decisions,

you know,

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