While it’s common to see flocks of wild turkeys in San Luis Obispo County, either pecking at lawns or roaming through neighborhoods, the experience can still be intimidating. These birds, which can ...

It's that classic line that provides my segue into the subject of this week's column, which is America's wild turkey. I sometimes wonder if my favorite episode of “WKRP,” which aired nearly 40 years ...

In the early 1900s, the situation for wild turkeys was dire. “Turkeys were eradicated from 18 of the 36 states that they had previously been found in,” Taylor Finger, game bird ecologist for the ...