Texas Parks and Wildlife is stocking in the piney woods of east Texas. This is the final year of turkey shipments to Texas. Turkeys are captured where large numbers exist or where complaints about their numbers concern landowners. The birds are baited with corn and captured by a net propelled by rockets. They are boxed and transported to their new homes overnight.
Turkeys going to Washington and Texas go on commercial airlines out of Kansas City.
The Iowa DNR uses the money to purchase woodland habitat. The funds are handled through the National Wild Turkey Federation's Target 2000 program. This program is an attempt to restock wild turkeys in suitable habitat throughout North America. Iowa has provided turkeys to Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, South Dakota, Kansas, Louisiana, Washington and Ontario, Canada. If the support isn't there, the bill will simply die at the end of the session.