Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog
By Jessica Domel
Multimedia Reporter
More than 80% of Texas is now suffering from moderate or worsedrought, and that could have an impact on the spring turkey hunting season.
“We do have some pretty dry conditions out across a lot of the Rio Grande range, and those dry conditions, not seeing those weeds starting to grow up and not seeing those bluebonnet rosettes on the ground, tends to suggest that we’re going to have a later start to our reproductive activity,” Jason Hardin, wild turkey program leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said in aninterviewwith theTexas Farm Bureau Radio Network.
Plenty of gobblers are out chasing, but Hardin notes there is going to be a lot of hens that are not sitting on nests during the first part of the season because they’re not in the physical condition they need…
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