Back in the early 1980s, when the state was laying the groundwork to reintroduce turkeys in Wisconsin, they said that the birds would only be able to make it in certain parts of southwestern Wisconsin. This was the only suitable habitat in the state, they told us. Any birds that might stray out of that area would never be able to sustain a huntable population. Today there is turkey hunting in many different parts of the state, including some that we were told would never have the kind of habitat to sustain even a few stray birds.

Wisconsin ended up being a case study in why wildlife biologists had to rethink what they had long assumed would make for suitable turkey habitat.


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