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Article: WILD TURKEY HARVEST IN S.C. DOWN AGAIN THIS SPRING
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 5 -- The South Carolina Departmetn of Natural Resources issued the following press release:
Nearly 50,000 turkey hunters take to the woods annually in South Carolina with hopes of harvesting a wily gobbler, and the 2009 spring turkey season was no exception. With a harvest of 16,234 birds, the spring turkey harvest was down about 9 percent from 2008 and down approximately 36 percent from the record harvest established in 2002, according to Charles Ruth, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Deer and Turkey Project supervisor. This year's reduction in harvest is likely due to poor reproduction by turkeys six out of the last seven summers. South Carolina's spring ...
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...Turkey harvest: The turkey run this year through the week ended Aug. 30 totaled 165.6 million birds--3.8% over year ago but less than 4% over for the first time this year--down from 4.3% over the week before and as much as 8% over earlier this year.
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