ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Rocket-powered nets and radio transmitters
are among the tools University of Georgia researchers are using
to determine what's behind the decline in the wild turkeys
population of the southeast. Wildlife agencies have seen a
regional decline in wild turkeys, and that there are about 7
million of the birds left. Encroaching development, chemical
herbicide and natural predators could be factors in the
population shift. Researchers told the newspaper that wildfires
do not appear to be a leading cause in the decline. The wild
turkey population dropped in the late 1800s and early 1900s,
then rebounded in the second half of the 20th century as forests
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