
The Great Depression is rarely looked upon as something to be thankful for, but America’s Meleagris gallopavo population should have been. Wild turkeys were in danger of being hunted to extinction when the Depression came along, but poorer people couldn’t afford the tax put on rifles and ammunition. And all those farms the humans abandoned made for a good wild turkey habitat in which to expand their numbers.
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