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The mystery of the Missouri s missing wild turkeys
Researchers are attaching sensors to turkey chicks to find out what s killing them.
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Itâs 6 a.m. and still dark in Putnam County, not far from the Iowa border. Alisha Mosloff and Reina Tyl have walked a half-mile through calf-deep snow to sit inside a blind and wait. Mosloff, a doctoral student, and Tyl, a scientist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, donât speak. They bring nothing to eat or drink. Itâs just them and a âbuddy heater,â a non-negotiable on that 6-degree February morning. The dawn light reveals the soybean field ahead. They watch it with binoculars.
“We had a very long period of nice weather other than the wind,” Power said. “Typically, you’ll get three, four, five days of super warm weather and then you get a (wintry) blast like we have right now,” Power said Tuesday, April 13. “But we had three weeks of incredibly warm weather straight.”
Crews also set nets in Lake Oahe, Rice Lake and Lake Ashtabula, Power said, but lack of runoff across the state resulted in marginal pike runs, and all of the pike eggs came from Pelican.
“We got the numbers, and it appears the quality is exceptional again, so we’re in good shape,” he said.
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