Work will include research into survival rates, mortality causes, poult recruitment and nesting success. The two-year study includes radio telemetry work in the South Mountain and Michaux State Forest areas. The four-week spring gobbler season, which runs until May 29, annually attracts about 250,000 hunters to the state's wooded and mountainous areas in pursuit of strutting gobblers and springtime excitement. Hunters must call turkeys into shooting range with either mouth or hand calls. They cannot stalk them.
Hunters are limited to one turkey in the spring season.
There is some confusion over the 1999 spring season's bag limit because the 1998-99 hunting license comes with two spring gobbler harvest tags. There were two tags included on the license in anticipation of a two-gobbler spring season bag limit proposed early in 1998. Commissioners changed their minds at a later meeting, opting to keep the limit at one gobbler. Unfortunately, the licenses had already gone to the printer and do not reflect the Commission's subsequent action. Hunters should consult the digest if they have questions about the spring gobbler bag limit or, for further clarification, call one of the Game Commission's six region offices or Harrisburg headquarters.