Originally Posted by canvasback
Originally Posted by craigd
Originally Posted by BrentD, Prof
....for turkeys up there....

....It's hard to be a consistently expanding population in bad habitat.Would you not say? Not impossible.Mind you, but it takes very, very special circumstances for it to be otherwise....

...right?

No it's not. Bugs, shoots and field seeds are everywhere. I suppose very, very special circumstances means, without waste from commercial corn production, we have bad habitat, lol.

You are such a bone head, Brent.

First of all, adding the bit about “climate change” was a needless throw away. But you’ve decided that’s the hill you’re going to die on in this thread.

A lot of northern Minnesota is very different habitat than a lot of southern Manitoba. And having hunted turkey in Manitoba, when they finally reinstated a season in 1995, I can tell you the turkey thrive in very specific habitat. You need to know where to go….what parts of the province have that habitat.

I have a passing familiarity with northern Minnesota, from Duluth in the east , Bemidji , Thief River Falls, the Detroit Lakes and over to Fargo and Grand Forks in the west. Like Manitoba, that terrain is varied and were I to go looking for turkey in Northern Minnesota, there are some very specific but limited areas I would look.

The point is their range is limited by suitable habitat ….terrain, vegetation and predation, not some change in the weather.

I know how sad you will feel about this, but I am neither dying nor on a hill.

Thanks for the informative update on Manitoba vs. northern MN. I would never have imagined... Sarcasm, off. I have passing familiarity with Manitoba. Now, why don't you run along with craig and study up on "habitat". And while you are at it, look up range expansion, range limitation and similar terms. Good grief you two are dense. Immensely dense.

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