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Missouri’s spring turkey hunting season concluded Sunday. In four months, local archers will again be seeking gobblers for what they hope is a robust fall season.
Neighboring Kansas won’t have that luxury.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parksrecently announced that its fall season will be canceled on account of a dwindling turkey population, the firsttime Kansas has canceled a season in the modern turkey-restoration era.
Kansas wildlife officials hope that cutting the fall season for the foreseeable future will help boost the population, which recently hit a 15-year low. Fall turkey season hunting participation in Kansas has also been reportedly low.
Kansas also imposed a one-turkey bag limit for the spring of 2024, similar to neighboring states Oklahoma and Nebraska, which also imposed stricter bag limits due to declining turkey populations.
Turkey population declines in the Great Plains states…
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