Wisconsin celebrates 50 years of wild turkeys back on the landscape
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Fifty years ago this week wild turkeys returned to Wisconsin’s snow-covered landscape for good when the first birds were released in the Bad Axe River watershed in Vernon County.
Turkeys were native in Wisconsin from Prairie du Chien to Green Bay, but in the 1800s land changes and market hunting led to their demise.
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