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150 Louisiana Sportsman^ | April 2015

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owever, there is nothing wrong with shooting a jake,

particularly if you have never killed a turkey. Since

jakes are young and have not played the game before,

they are not as challenging as an adult gobbler.

Hunting is the primary factor that regulates gobbler numbers

in a population; predators will catch adult turkeys, but it is not

an easy task.

Consequently if a hunter passes on a jake, chances are good

that the tom will be around for the next season.

Louisiana does not have the large tracts of forested land

that can be found in some of the other Southeast states;

consequently our population of wild turkeys is not as high as

Mississippi or Alabama.

Urban sprawl has taken its toll in rural parishes surrounding our

larger cities. For example, following Hurricane Katrina the Florida

Parishes along the Lake Pontchartrain north shore saw a dramatic

increase in human population across the rural landscape — and

wooded habitat in this area became very fragmented.

The same thing has happened around Baton Rouge and

Shreveport.

Fragmented forest habitat

does not help the wild turkey.

In this situation, a season that

is late and allows for maximum

breeding of the hens prior to

shooting gobblers should help

increase turkey numbers. ■

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