WV Spring Gobbler Harvest Falls Drastically
Chris Lawrence
South Charleston




It wasn't the greatest year for spring gobbler hunters in West Virginia. As a matter of fact, it hasn't been this light since 1989. Hunters killed 8,332 birds during the four-week season in West Virginia. It's a 10-percent drop over the 2011 harvest and 15-percent lower than the previous five-year average.

Biologists predicted the numbers for spring 2012 would be lighter, based solely on data from the 2010 brood counts. The brood production in 2012 was 28-percent below the previous year--which translated to fewer of the often taken 2-year old birds available to hunters.

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