Hunters Harvest more than 1,500 wild turkeys during Ohio’s fall season
COLUMBUS – Hunters harvested 1,536 wild turkeys during Ohio’s 2015 fall wild turkey season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Ohio’s 2015 fall wild turkey hunting season was open in 56 counties Oct. 10 – Nov. 29.
Wild turkeys were extirpated in Ohio by 1904 and were reintroduced in the 1950s by the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Ohio’s first modern day wild turkey season opened in the spring of 1966 in nine counties, and hunters checked 12 birds. The wild turkey harvest topped 1,000 for the first time in 1984. Spring turkey hunting opened statewide in 2000. Fall turkey season first opened in 19 counties in 1996.
The following is a list of all wild turkeys checked during the 2015 fall hunting season: Adams: 44; Ashland: 27; Ashtabula: 73; Athens: 31; Belmont: 33; Brown: 26; Butler: 13; Carroll: 21; Clermont: 43; Columbiana: 43; Coshocton: 43; Cuyahoga: 2; Darke 1; Defiance: 18; Delaware: 9; Fairfield: 14; Franklin: 1; Gallia: 50; Geauga: 45; Greene 1; Guernsey: 35; Hamilton: 10; Harrison: 32; Highland: 40; Hocking: 52; Holmes: 27; Huron: 6; Jackson: 43; Jefferson: 30; Knox: 34; Lake: 11; Lawrence: 31; Licking: 36; Lorain: 29; Mahoning: 23; Medina: 22; Meigs: 33; Monroe: 21; Morgan: 13; Morrow: 17; Muskingum: 27; Noble: 35; Perry: 29; Pike: 35; Portage: 38; Richland: 21; Ross: 24; Scioto: 27; Seneca: 6; Stark: 27; Summit: 12; Trumbull: 50; Tuscarawas: 23; Vinton: 34; Warren: 9; Washington: 23; Wayne: 13; Williams: 20. Total: 1,536.
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