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Foraging the Forest Floor: Asparagus, Chickweed and Stinging Nettle

Early spring brings a newness to the woods. Turkeys are beginning to gobble and the fish are biting. But along with the thawing ground and warmer weather, we have some nutritious foods that we can forage from the forest floor.

How-To, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Bad Birds: When Turkeys Don’t Cooperate

And after more than 40 years of turkey hunting I still find birds that beat me. I cuss them out at first, but when reason returns I bless them for making me a better turkey hunter.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To, Firearm

How to Trap Turkey Predators In Order to Increase Poult Populations

Ongoing predator control is a useful and often necessary tool for successful wildlife management. A regular relationship with a trapper will help you see a big increase in ground-nesting birds.

Turkey, Predator, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How Tony Adams Catches Warm Weather Crappie

Tony Adams of Eufaula, Alabama, can produce a three-person limit of crappie on Lake Eufaula in less than 4 hours, and you can too by following his recommendations for crappie fishing on many crappie lakes across the country.

Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To

Food Plots for Game Bird Success

Two aspects of wildlife management that are growing rapidly are the restoration of native habitat and growing crops with game birds in mind. I am of the opinion that “loss of habitat” may be the number one factor (on a list of many reasons) for the steady decline in quail numbers over the past several decades.

Small Game, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Tackling Tardy Toms

Birds that aren’t culled out early wise up quickly and their once eager response to our plaintive pleadings soon ranges somewhere between reluctance and indifference. As the days grow longer, the randy toms’ breeding instincts start to wane, making them even harder still to hunt.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

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