The "North AL ag situation" is very interesting. It contradicts a lot of publications / studies about "ideal" turkey habitat.
It is enough proof to at least question the traditional beliefs of what ideal habitat really is.
Interesting comment!
I well remember going to a turkey seminar at Comer Hall in 1975 when I was a student at Auburn. One of the wildlife professors led it, and he talked mostly about how to hunt turkeys. I remember that he told us he had killed 44 in his life and I was impressed.
But the seminar ended on a down note. He thought some places in north AL that were just getting huntable populations might be better in the future, but south AL was doomed. Clearcutting by the paper companies was sure to wipe out the wild turkey in the south. Turkeys require vast hardwood forests to survive, and we were in the last days of good turkey hunting in south AL.
Turkeys proved him wrong, but everyone thought like him back then.
