My questions for you: Are you ready for turkey season? Do you know where you’re going to hunt?

With the state's wild turkey population swelling to the healthy level of more than 20,000, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources decided to allow the hunt again for the first since it was ceased in 1984.

State scientists say Missouri's wild turkey population appears to be on the rebound.

Hunters under age 16 need a youth spring turkey permit; hunters age 16 and older need a spring turkey permit.

Mississippi's spring turkey hunting season runs March 15 to May 1.

Each permit lets a hunter kill one male or bearded female turkey with bow and arrow in the archery season or with a shotgun in the shotgun season.

A statewide effort to capture wild turkey hens and fit them with leg bands to obtain accurate data on survival and harvest is underway.

A population of roving turkeys on Staten Island has become a mess-making, traffic-stopping scourge to some residents.