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.

Well, I'm pretty excited, Will.

Yeah, me too.

So today we have a special guest.

It's Heather King Thomas.

And we are really, really excited to have you here.

We have talked, I don't know how many times about your your father's work

love it williams and uh we are just really excited to hear your perspective on things and you've

already told us before we started the show about some of the things you were involved with. And I'm just really

excited. Yeah. Yeah, I am too. And I think, you know, in some ways, it can be better to

learn about somebody from, you know, from their kids or their spouses or someone that is not

them because I feel like, you know, we always have a certain image that we want to project, but then our loved ones and our friends and our family oftentimes give us like this, that they're straight dope, the true story, the unfiltered version on, you know, what others perceive us as being. So glad to have you here, Heather.

Well, thank you.

Thank you very much for having me.

Yeah, I will say I am curious to see what you have to say because I have been thinking about this and I have a couple of young daughters and I'm really curious how you will portray your

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