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.

Will, are you going to tell us how excited you are about this episode?

Extremely.

You usually do on everyone?

It doesn't feel right if we don't, right?

Yeah, doesn't feel right.

But I really am excited because we're getting to address a whole bunch of our listeners' comments and requests with this one.

We have Luke Garver here today with us, and we're really excited to have you, Luke, and I'm glad

you took some time to do this.

We appreciate that a lot, and I know a lot of our listeners do, because we've gotten some

pretty consistent feedback that we need to get up in your part of the country to talk about turkeys.

Yeah, I really appreciate being on, honored to be asked.

I kind of expected that eventually I might get the nod from you guys, but I didn't expect it to be.

I thought there'd be a lot of other states before you hit Illinois, but I'm happy to be on.

Well, you made the mistake of replying to the email quickly.

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