Wild turkey population dynamics and what the manipulative study of season dates in Mississippi tells us about the role of hunting, ft. Adam Butler | #02
Wild Turkey Science
Charlotte Nowak
5.0 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Adam Butler gives us an historical context for wild turkey population dynamics and reveals results from the ongoing season date manipulation across several wild turkey populations in Mississippi.
Paper: Considerations for Timing of Spring Wild Turkey Hunting Seasons in the Southeastern
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wild Turkey Science, a podcast made possible by Turkeys for Tomorrow. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Dr. Marcus Lashley, Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Florida. |
| 0:19.6 | And I'm Dr. Will Gulsby, Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Auburn University. |
| 0:25.6 | We're both lifelong hunters and devoted scientists who are passionate about hunting, |
| 0:30.6 | managing, and researching wild turkeys. |
| 0:33.6 | 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. |
| 0:44.0 | Our goal is to serve as your connection to wild turkey science. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome back to another episode of Wild Turkey Science podcast, and we're here today talking to Adam Butler, who is, and hopefully I get this title right, Adam, the Turkey Program Coordinator. |
| 1:06.1 | Is that accurate? |
| 1:07.9 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:08.3 | That is correct. |
| 1:09.0 | The turkey program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm glad you said the rest of it because I couldn't remember at the moment whether it was wildlife fisheries and parks or fisheries wildlife and parks. Yeah, it gets confusing. Every state does it a little different. So I know you've got to kind of keep that reference in the back of your head. Right. but you know know, Adam, it's your job, you know, to spend 365 days a year, you know, |
| 1:32.1 | thinking about turkeys, not only in Mississippi, but you regularly convene and converse |
| 1:37.6 | with turkey biologists from all over the country, both from other state agencies as well as |
| 1:42.7 | academia. |
| 1:44.0 | And we appreciate you coming on today to talk about some of your perspectives |
| 1:47.5 | related to turkey population status in Mississippi |
| 1:51.3 | and maybe discuss a little bit about season frameworks |
| 1:55.3 | and how that relates back to wild turkey biology |
| 1:58.0 | and sharing some of the data that you guys have been collecting |
| 2:01.0 | at a statewide level for the past several years. |
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