Biologists believe turkey numbers are more likely sustainable now then when they were at their peak. (Steve Bowman photo)
By Steve Rogers, OutdoorChannel.com
Few will argue that the comeback of the wild turkey is one of North America’s greatest conservation stories.After numbers were thinned terribly entering the early 1900s by habitat destruction and unregulated hunting, wild turkey populations had again reached huntable levels by the 1950s in many states, thanks to programs initiated by wildlife agencies. Today, according to the National Wild Turkey Federation, turkey are hunted in 49 U.S. states, seven Canadian provinces and in portions of Mexico, where restoration efforts are just beginning.
In recent decades, however, population numbers have dwindled, off and on, in different areas across the continent.
But turkey...