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Turkey decline under study
Predation, habitat loss, and bad weather all are suspects in the decline of Oklahoma’s wild turkeys, but the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is looking inward as well — at turkey DNA.
The state’s first latestart hunting season, with a reduced bag limit, ended May 16 with about 100 DNA samples among the harvest. They will go to the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas…