From now through August, if you see any wild turkeys, you're asked to record them through this online portal. Here's why it's ...

In 2022, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources launched a 10-year study looking into the wild turkey population in southeast Iowa to try to determine why it’s declining.

Iowa’s turkey hunting season opens this weekend and it’s estimated up to 35,000 hunters will participate this year. Nate Carr, an Iowa DNR conservation officer for Hardin and Hamilton counties ...

Agricultural practices changed a lot of Iowa’s landscape, and bringing back the turkey’s natural habitat will help with breeding.

Klossing, a Mount Pleasant native and Iowa State University biology and animal ecology major, is spending her summer as a seasonal technician for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, tracking ...

In 1910, turkeys were completely wiped out in Iowa. But after experts introduced turkeys from Missouri, the wild bird population adapted so well that the population has boomed in Iowa.

The final phase of Iowa's 2024 spring turkey hunting seasons ended May 12. See how many more turkeys were bagged than 2023's record-setting season.

The 2024 spring turkey season finished with a record 16,059 turkeys harvested, beating the previous record of 14,483 birds set in 2023.

This map shows the distribution of the population change across all 99 counties: Nearly 700 Iowa communities lost residents between 2010 and 2017.

Iowa’s spring turkey hunting season is scheduled to start later this week. Nate Carr, a conservation officer with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says Iowa’s youngest hunters will ...

The telemetry study, which involves tracking and studying hens and their offspring, aims to solve puzzle of what's driving the 30-year downward trend.