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Article: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ASKS FOR INFORMATION ON WILD TURKEY BROOD SIGHTINGS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 6, 2006
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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release:
The Department of Environmental Management is asking Rhode Islanders to assist its Division of Fish and Wildlife's wild turkey project by reporting any sightings of wild turkey hens with or without broods of young turkeys, known as poults. DEM biologists need the information to evaluate this year's reproduction of wild turkeys, the survival of the poults, and the population of the state's wild turkey flock.
Last year, 157 turkey brood sightings were reported, according to Brian Tefft, principal wildlife biologist at DEM and head of the wild turkey project. The total number of adults reported was 208, ...