The best thing we can do for the turkey is to provide habitat so that the hens can hide their nests and the poults can hide from predators. That is the limiting factor for turkey populations. If a lot of the poults can survive until they can fly, then you will have a lot of turkeys. Adult turkeys have habitat that they prefer, but they can survive most anywhere. A lot of people look at mature hardwoods and tell you they have great turkey habitat, but if that's all they have, they don't. You gotta produce the poults if you wanna have turkeys. I think it's that simple.

Spring gobbler hunting has almost nothing to do with it, and never will.