Minnesota Wild Turkey Hunting

[jason]

Hunters who want to get in the field early for the 2010 spring turkey
hunt must apply by Friday, Jan. 8, wherever hunting and fishing licenses
are sold.

Adult hunters may apply for one of nearly 57,000 permits to hunt a
five- or seven-day season in one of 77 permit areas. Youth 17 and
younger no longer need to apply for the lottery. They will be able to
purchase a spring turkey permit for any permit area and any time period
directly from a license agent. Applicants choose one of eight time
periods in which to hunt.

A new rule effective in 2010 allows hunters not selected in the permit
lottery to purchase a permit in any area for one of the hunt’s last
two time periods.

Additional details are available online at
Wild turkey hunting: Minnesota DNR.

[Gopher]

I live in Kentucky and we have wild turkeys coming out of our ears (well almost). Any day of the week we have a bunch of them in our field munching away at whatever is left of the vegetation. They are almost on the verge of becoming a pest species.