antleraddiction
Member
I think everyone had a little more time to turkey hunt this spring due to the virus. Harvests are way up across the majority of the state. Crazy the jump some counties had this year.
I also created this graph for my own curiosity. I was always told that the bobcats have "done a number on the turkeys." The harvests from each county that are in the bobcat zone (listed below) were totaled and graphed on another line. I know this doesn't tell all but if bobcats truly altered the turkey population then I would suspect the harvests in these counties to go down over time as bobcat numbers have increased (maybe 2007 isn't as early of a data point as what's needed to see this trend).
Bobcat zone counties :
Adair
Adams
Appanoose
Cass
Clarke
Davis
Decatur
Des Moines
Fremont
Henry
Jefferson
Keokuk
Lee
Louisa
Lucas
Madison
Mahaska
Marion
Mills
Monroe
Montgomery
Page
Pottawattamie
Ringgold
Taylor
Union
Van Buren
Wapello
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Audubon
Cedar
Cherokee
Clinton
Crawford
Dallas
Guthrie
Harrison
Iowa
I also created this graph for my own curiosity. I was always told that the bobcats have "done a number on the turkeys." The harvests from each county that are in the bobcat zone (listed below) were totaled and graphed on another line. I know this doesn't tell all but if bobcats truly altered the turkey population then I would suspect the harvests in these counties to go down over time as bobcat numbers have increased (maybe 2007 isn't as early of a data point as what's needed to see this trend).
Bobcat zone counties :
Adair
Adams
Appanoose
Cass
Clarke
Davis
Decatur
Des Moines
Fremont
Henry
Jefferson
Keokuk
Lee
Louisa
Lucas
Madison
Mahaska
Marion
Mills
Monroe
Montgomery
Page
Pottawattamie
Ringgold
Taylor
Union
Van Buren
Wapello
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Audubon
Cedar
Cherokee
Clinton
Crawford
Dallas
Guthrie
Harrison
Iowa