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 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.

I know we talked to you at the WTF convention for a while about all the cool work that you're doing up in Pennsylvania.

And I guess that's partnering with some other agencies even.

But yeah, if you wouldn't mind, we'd love to hear what kind of work you have going on

and what you're trying to get out of it.

Yeah.

So it's a four-year study that we're working on in Pennsylvania in partnership with Penn State University, Dwayne Diefenbach and

Franie Boutermann but we also have a side project at a gobbler project

we're looking at gobbler crippling loss and that's with Dr. Andy Mowen

from Penn State but But the HEN study is with the USGS

co-op unit at Penn State, Franie and Dwayne, and in partnership with University of Pennsylvania.

So there's all the veterinarians.

So we've got the veterinarians,

and then we have the, you know, the spatial

and the population biologists.

And me caught in the middle just trying to understand

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