Turkeys and Grouse | #162
Wild Turkey Science
Charlotte Nowak
5.0 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Ben Jones, CEO of RGS & AWS, joins us to explore how active forest stewardship - from prescribed fire to targeted timber harvests and new wood markets - can restore age-class diversity and habitat for ruffed grouse and wild turkey across eastern forests.
Resources:
Food Plots, Feed or Fire: The Real Costs Per Pound of Deer Forage (NDA article)
Dr. Ben Jones benj@ruffedgrousesociety.org
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University. |
| 0:26.2 | We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting, managing, and researching wild turkeys. |
| 0:33.5 | In this podcast, we'll explore turkey research, speak to the experts in the field, and address |
| 0:39.3 | the difficult questions related to wild turkey ecology and management. |
| 0:43.7 | Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science. |
| 0:52.6 | The flow, the flow. flow and we're live but we haven't given but charlotte tells us we need to have |
| 1:01.7 | five seconds that may have been the slowest five second camera. |
| 1:10.9 | That is so hard. |
| 1:13.5 | Now I understand where my kids are coming from. |
| 1:15.8 | That's so hard. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.8 | Do you all play quiet mouse? |
| 1:20.7 | Well, not quiet mouse, but the quiet game. |
| 1:23.6 | They've caught on by now, though. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | When I was a kid, we played Quiet Mouse. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.5 | And nobody liked that game. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | Well, except for my parents. |
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