As we know there is an elevated interest in wild turkey science within the turkey hunting community, we are working to bring you numerous updates and research summaries from the 13th National Wild Turkey Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri.

This episode includes conversations with the authors from the following papers included in the "Human Dimensions and Hunting" session:

"Hunting impacts male wild turkey movement and resource selection: insights from a hunted and nonhunted population" — Wightman et al. (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1629)

"Geographical variation in male eastern wild turkey gobbling activity relative to female nesting chronology" — Moscicki et al. (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1627)

Additional guests include the NWTF's Ricky Lackey.

While we were not able to sit down and have further conversations with all presenters or authors from the session about human dimensions and hunting, please check out the following research paper:

"Reviewing human dimensions of wild turkey hunting research and synthesizing future directions" — Steele et al. (https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.1645)

To view the full symposium agenda, visit www.wildturkeysymposium.org.