. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FiSH AND GAME 191 that a few years of careful management will make this extraordinary game bird quite plentiful. The Division of Fish and Game is doing a wonderful work in its efforts to win back the State's once splendid reputation as a game country. Land owners and people generally should do everything possible to encourage the good work.—Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, December 16, 1930. WILD TURKEY CAN COME BACK Can the wild
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FiSH AND GAME 191 that a few years of careful management will make this extraordinary game bird quite plentiful. The Division of Fish and Game is doing a wonderful work in its efforts to win back the State's once splendid reputation as a game country. Land owners and people generally should do everything possible to encourage the good work.—Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, December 16, 1930. WILD TURKEY CAN COME BACK Can the wild turkey, so numerous in the time of the pioneers and now rare or extinct in many states, stage a come-back on the trans- figured face of America with the aid of the pioneers' descendants? An experiment in southern Wisconsin seems to be proving the original Thanksgiving emblem may again strut in large numbers as "the noblest of American game ;. Fig. 60. Young wild turkeys, huddled and wondering about the strange look- ing fellow who peers into a "black ; Photograph by E. S. Cheney, Yountville, 1930. Against the advice of many authorities, who declared that the wild turkey could never reappear in the Middle West because of decreasing woodland areas, 40 of the birds were released a year ago near Baraboo, Wisconsin. They have thrived so well that the Columbia County Game Protective recently released 80 more birds in adjacent territory, Art Swauson, editor of the Outdoor column in the Chicago American, has informed the American Game Association. "There are still many reasonable wild areas remaining and if it is possible to restrain the game hog Wisconsin may again enjoy the rare sport of hunting the wily 'turk,' " he declared. The wild turkey formerly ranged every wooded state, so it is logical to believe this king of the game birds can be brought back by recreat- ing a favorable environment through methods of protection and su
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