2007 spring wild turkey harvest report
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More than 52,000 hunters pursued a turkey in Indiana this spring


Indiana wildlife biologist Steve Backs has tabulated check station reports from this spring's wild turkey hunting season and found hunters harvested 11,163 wild turkeys from 86 of the 91 counties open to hunting.

The 2007 harvest was the second highest harvest in 38 years. The 2007 total was slightly more than the 2005 harvest, but 15 percent less than the record 13,193 birds harvested during 2006.

Counties with the highest wild turkey harvests
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-Switzerland, 467
-Harrison, 402
-Jefferson, 399
-Dearborn, 391
-Greene, 354
-Perry, 349
-Parke, 333
-Clark, 309
-Pike, 306

A total of 736 birds was taken during the new special youth weekend prior to the regular season (6.6 percent of the statewide harvest).

Backs speculates that reasons for the slight drop in harvest numbers this spring were low turkey reproduction in 2005 and abnormal spring weather temperature extremes prior to the 2007 season.

More 2007 state and county turkey harvest data:
http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/hunt/turkey/turkeydata.htm


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