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Missouri's Hunter Recruitment Dove Field Initiative
Missouri’s New Hunter Recruitment Dove Field Initiative is a cooperative effort between the NWTF, Quail Forever, the Conservation Federation of Missouri, the Missouri Prairie Foundation and the Missouri Department of Conservation.
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Enhancing acreage on Manistee National Forest
This project recently enhanced 205 acres of oak forests, oak savannas and wildlife openings across southwest Michigan.
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Frenchtown Face Project
The NWTF collaborated with the USDA Forest Service and the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks on the Frenchtown Face Project – a project just west of Missoula, Montana, focused on prescribed burning and thinning ground cover in the Lolo National Forest to help wildlife and improve habitat.
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Habitat restoration on the Black Kettle National Grasslands
Through a Fiscal Year 2019 Oklahoma NWTF Super Fund grant to the Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association, equip local prescribed burning associations to enable prescribed burning operations on private lands throughout focal landscapes in in south central, north central and northeastern counties.
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2019 improvements in Choccolocco WMA
Beginning in 2019, this harrow work will annually encompass between 1,000 to 1,500 acres.
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Rich in Resources
NWTF partnerships are improving riparian zones on public lands in Missouri, Illinois.
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Improving nesting and brooding habitat in the Ohio River Foothills
Establishing a diverse age of trees across the forest’s Ironton District.
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Hardwood improvements in the Savannah River Corridor
Thinning timber and harvesting less-desirable hardwood species allowed for more beneficial wildlife species such as walnut, oaks and beech.
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Retaining meadows in the Black Hills
Tools and techniques include hand-felling with chainsaws, lopping and scattering, girdling and mechanical piling to remove ponderosa pine and spruce from within and around aspen, birch and bur oak stands in the Sugarloaf project area.
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Increasing native grasses in Eldorado National Forest
This projected impacted 700 acres, improving crucial habitat for wild turkey, mountain quail and the Pacific deer herd.
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NWTF helps acquire land for access to the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge
The NWTF has contributed $22,000 and helped open access to more than 437 acres.
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Prescribed Fire Position Statement
The NWTF’s Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative is now focused on maintaining those healthy, sustainable and huntable wild turkey populations for generations to come. An important part of doing that is active habitat management, which includes the use of prescribed burning or prescribed fire.
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Riparian Forest Buffer Initiative
This project focuses on protecting streamside management zones for water quality, soil stability and improved habitat.
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GAR3 sets bar with annual meeting and hunt
The NWTF has found a unique way to support their continued R3 efforts in Georgia. Lynn Lewis, NWTF conservation field manager, certified wildlife biologist and a steering committee member of the Georgia R3 Initiative, plans and hosts the annual steering committee meeting.
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USFS Helo burns
With budget constraints, sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands has become a challenge. Using partnerships, such as the one with the NWTF, the work is being completed.
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Direct seeding success in Minnesota
Completing even small-scale projects can have a positive impact on wild turkey populations while benefiting other wildlife in the process.
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Dolores River Restoration Partnership
Economical pest management practices are helping control nonnative, invasive plants such as tamarisk and Russian knapweed, as well as to re-establish native plants in the historic floodplain.
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Wisconsin North Shore Chapter Learn to Hunt program producing new hunters and mentors
“By mentoring friends, not only do they get the Learn to Hunt experience, but they also may have a future hunting partner for years to come,” she said of the program’s young mentors.
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NWTF helps open hunting access across Wyoming
Through a special program organized by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the NWTF is helping open hunting access on private and public lands in Wyoming.
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The NWTF helps re-establish open woodland areas in Illinois
John D. Burk, NWTF district biologist for Missouri and Illinois, said the NWTF and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources have worked to re-establish open woodland areas at Siloam Springs State Park in Adams and Brown counties and Hidden Springs State Park in Shelby County.
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Improving nesting habitat in Flat Tub WMA
Using prescribed fire during dormant and growing seasons to improve nesting and brood-rearing habitat.
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5 years of restoration in the Southern Piney Woods
Habitat restoration of desirable foraging, brood rearing and escape cover for wild turkeys, poults and bobwhite quail chicks.
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Generating watershed benefits for Great Open Spaces
The NWTF works to restore historical prairie grassland habitat.
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Restoring open woodlands in Illinois and Missouri
Overstocked forest thinning restores healthy conditions in the Shawnee Hills.
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Partnering for Success in Conservation
The NWTF’s 42nd annual Convention and Sport Show’s Conservation Conference brought together nongovernmental organizations, government partners, private companies and more interested in helping to preserve our nation’s precious wildlife.
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Riparian habitat along the Republican River
Upland habitat restoration, native grass restoration, tree and shrub establishment and excluding livestock from use of critical areas
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Private land habitat improvements in the Colonial Forests
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program is a four- year agreement with the Wildlife Management Institute to assist landowners in creating diverse habitat
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Enhancing nesting habitats in the Southern Piney Woods
In this project, prescribed burning is being used to enhance diverse native grass stands and forbs that provide brood-rearing and nesting habitat for healthy longleaf pine ecosystems.
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Timber thinning improves habitats in the Mid-South Rebirth region
New stands of oak-hickory, oak and mixed shortleaf pine-oak habitats are growing, thanks to timber thinning and mechanical treatments.
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Alterations in the Allegany
To combat a downtick in wild turkey numbers, the NWTF and partners work to restore parts of America’s Colonial Forests habitat
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New York park commemorates trap-and-transfer program
A new exhibit at the Allegany State Park Administration Building Museum commemorates the park’s role in trapping and transferring wild turkeys to other areas within New York and other Northeastern states.
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Treatments and harvests improve habitats in the Crossroads region
Timber harvest and chemical treatments of invasive buckthorn, red cedar and honeysuckle is under way.
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Project improves private land forest health in the Great Open Spaces
A cooperative forester position was developed in 2013 to work with partners in Wyoming’s Black Hills to improve forest health on private lands
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Green Mountain National Forest
The focal area for this project is the Eastern New York/Western New England area
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Louisiana project provides forester in the Southern Piney Woods
The grant will improve wildlife habitat, areas for public recreation, hunting and provide for the conservation of endangered species
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Longleaf restoration in the Mid-South Rebirth
More than 460 acres of longleaf pine were restored in this project
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Crossing borders for wildlife in America’s Crossroads
Eastern turkeys will thrive in this open woodland and savannahs with this healthy plant life.
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Great work, great partnerships in the Great Open Spaces
On this project, the removal of invasive Eastern red cedar was accomplished through mechanical means and herbicides.
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Wild about habitat improvements in the Ochoco National Forest
The Son Stewardship Project near Prineville, Oregon, is a five-year agreement between the Ochoco National Forest and NWTF.
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Treating acreage in central Florida
More than 45,000 acres in and around the Osceola focal landscape within central Florida have been treated with prescribed fire and herbicide over the last two years
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Sproul State Forest
Controlled burning on 290 acres in Pennsylvania’s Sproul State Forest aims to address mature scrub oak, which last burned during a 1970 wildfire
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Prescribed burn plans for Illinois landowners
NWTF provides prescribed burn plans to local landowners interested in using fire to burn grasslands or timber in central Illinois
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Cumberland Plateau
Developing safe fire breaks and creating small openings in timber, planting of shortleaf pine and using controlled burns minimize the long-term effects of devastating wildfires in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest and the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area
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Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration
The 5,000-acre Pinaleño Ecosystem Restoration Project includes about 3,300 acres of timber harvest
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Thinning Ponderosa Pine
Effort protects remaining green islands of pines following catastrophic fires in 2006 and 2012
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NWTF, CPW and Land Board form unique partnership to buy hydro ax
Work to improve habitat for a variety of wildlife will now be conducted year-round across Colorado thanks to a unique new public-private partnership between Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Colorado State Land Board and the National Wild Turkey Federation.
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NWTF and NRCS partner with land owners in the Southern Flatwoods
Three-year agreement between NWTF and NRCS to thin forests and remove exotic plants through timber management and prescribed fire
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Seeing Potential in the Pine Ridge and the Burgeoning Black Hills
Despite obstacles and management hurdles, the NWTF’s focus remains in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Nebraska’s Pine Ridge
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Southern New York Habitat Improvement
Establishing young forest habitat on private lands through the Wildlife Management Institute’s four-year Regional Conservation Partnership Program award from the NRCS on private lands in New York
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Forest Regeneration on Richard Dorer State Forest
Regenerating older maple and basswood forests to red oak, white oak and bur oak during a three-year project on the Winona, Minnesota, Whitewater WMA and Richard Dorer State Forest
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Oak Woodland and Grassland restoration
Five-year oak woodland and grassland restoration project to boost populations of Rio Grande wild turkeys, northern bobwhite quail, other grassland birds and white-tailed deer from south-central Oklahoma to southeast Texas
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NWTF and NRCS work to restore hardwood forests
A three-year agreement between the NWTF and NRCS promotes restored, native mixed shortleaf pine and hardwood forests in Florence, Decatur, Moulton and Huntsville, Alabama
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Lolo National Forest prescribed burn
Prescribed burning of Montana’s Lolo National Forest is helping game species — wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, elk and mule deer — and nongame animals, such as flammulated owls and pileated woodpeckers
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The Power of Partnerships
“We can’t do the work that we want to do without state agencies,” explained Ricky. “We’re just a nonprofit so to have a partner like FWC is crucial, it’s critical. We could not even come close to making the impact we do without them.”
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Prescribed Fire Projects
One key to successful habitat projects is forging solid partnerships between multiple agencies.
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The True Identity of America’s Conservationists
Hunters are the boots-on-the-ground, hands-on conservationists of today
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To the president’s desk: “Wildlife for the 21st Century: Volume V”
Nearly 50 conservation groups worked to recommend vital conservation-related solutions to the new president and congress.
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Merriam’s of the Zuni Mountains
Partnerships are restoring habitats in the Zuni Mountains.
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Partnerships in Action
Impacting more hunters and wildlife through partnerships
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Sky Island Gould's
Gould’s wild turkeys in the United States were completely wiped out in 1929 but are now restored to huntable populations
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NWTF Oklahoma Aids Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in Land Acquisition
At a recent meeting of the NWTF Oklahoma State Chapter’s board of directors, funding was allocated to assist Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in the acquisition of a nearly 1,400-acre property located in Osage County, Oklahoma.
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Northeast Provides Habitat During Extreme Weather
The NWTF and its conservation partners are working to restore forest openings in Green Mountain National Forest.
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Invasive Species Across the Country: Southern Piney Woods
Invasive Species Across the Country: Great Open Spaces
Invasive Species Across the Country: Mid-South Rebirth
Invasive Species Across the Country: Colonial Forests
Invasive Species Across the Country: Western Wildlands
Invasive Species Across the Country: America’s Crossroads
Maintaining Oaks for Better Winter Habitat
Less competition for oaks means more acorns and healthier turkeys.
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NWTF Dollars At Work: Cañada de Los Osos Guzzler Project Phase I
Wildlife relies on spring box guzzlers during the drought.
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Researching Merriam's Wild Turkeys to Better Tune Habitat
Habitat and wildlife can take a beating during times of severe drought and harsh winters in the West. 
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Yellowtail Management Area Receives Invasive Treatment
Wyoming’s Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management Area is being rid of invasive species.
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Land Makeovers in Illinois
Work with the NWTF to improve the land on your property.
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National Forests Receive Aid in Virginia
Several strategic partners are pooling efforts under a cooperative agreement to work 16 unique projects in the George Washington and Jefferson national forests.
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A 2,180-mile Hike for Conservation
NWTF Houston member Brandon Jacob will hike all 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail to help raise funds for conservation.
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Habitat Help for the Karner Blue Butterfly
The NWTF's habitat work benefits wild turkeys and numerous other species.
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Plants Receive Aid From Woodland Restoration Project
Forest openings in the dense woodland benefits multiple rare plants.
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Boosting Cerulean Warbler Populations Through Habitat Work
A unique upland habitat enhancement project will help curb the decline in cerulean warbler populations.
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Grassland Restoration Project to Impact Nesting Success
Pennsylvania to execute projects that provide, create and enhance wildlife habitat.
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Cooperative Efforts Improve Habitat
Cooperative efforts near Bison, South Dakota, by the USDA Forest Service and the NWTF are improving habitat for many animals, including ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, Merriam’s wild turkeys, deer and elk.
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NWTF and State Agencies Team Up to Restore Habitat
Teaming up with state agencies and other conservation groups is one way the NWTF stretches its dollars.
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Grassland Restoration Projects in Action
Projects in the Upper Midwest work to restore grasslands destroyed by urban sprawl and development.
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Grassland and Oak Woodlands Restoration
Projects in New Mexico and Nebraska help habitat reach its full potential.
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Georgia Projects Create Woodland Savannas
The NWTF and its partners focus on dwindling grasslands and savannas across the U.S.
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Forests get the NWTF touch in Arizona and New Mexico
States received multiple benefits from forest thinning.
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Improving Forest Health in Alabama
Teamwork projects on forest health improve habitat for all species in Alabama.
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Illinois Projects Shed Light on Forest Health
Opening the forest and removing honeysuckle has improved the forest floor in Illinois.
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A Trip Through America’s Crossroads
Explore America's Crossroads with us.
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Projects Boost Turkey Production in the West
The removal of an invasive species leaves more water for native habitats to flourish.
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Promoting Edge Habitat in Kentucky
Field edge boarders provide excellent food and cover for wildlife, which is why the NWTF and the USDA is working to keep them.
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Focus on the Finger Lakes National Forest
Habitat work in New York improves the lifestyle of wild turkeys and other wildlife species.
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H2O in Florida
Projects in Florida are underway to improve forest and wildlife habitat while preserving water quality.
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Water conservation in the Midwest
Water is the building block for everything. Find out how people can preserve this precious resource.
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Wild West Water
Folks in Idaho take steps to improve water quality and wildlife habitat.
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NWTF lauds work on the Sportsmen's Act of 2015
There's progress on a bill that benefits America's community of sportsmen, and we're happy about it.
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Management Plans on Private Lands
Join forces and participate in the longleaf pine restoration initiative.
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A Trio of Riparian-Related Efforts
Out with the invasive, in with the native. Find out why riversides and creek bottoms are booming.
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Taking Cover Seriously
Cover is three-dimensional in the eyes of the wild.
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Osceola National Forest Improvements
Learn what improvements are being made to the Osceola National Forest.
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Black Kettle WMA
What’s good for turkeys is good for wildlife.
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Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest Upgrade
Habitat management means more turkeys!
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NWTF Florida continues to make a positive impact
Partnerships stretch Super Fund money to make a bigger impact in Florida.
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NWTF to Impact 15,000 Acres
Kentucky and Tennessee acres get critical habitat work.
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Overcoming Habitat Deficits on Public Lands
Partnerships are vital to the success of turning public land into ideal habitat.
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Regional Projects Create Diversity in Habitat
Early successional habitat in Louisiana and Mississippi
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Restoring Wild Turkeys in East Texas
Turkey populations rev up due to Texas officials.
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Ft. Meade Recreation Area Changes
Find out how the land was then and how it is now thanks to conservation projects.
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The Big Six of Wildlife Conservation
With six new identified regions of the ecosystem, our conservation issues will be easier to tackle.
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