2 things you can do to attract and produce more turkeys are treating non-native invasives and cutting over stocked trees. Treat invasives first then cut. Know what your cutting and when to use herbicide. Hen turkeys are insanely attracted to tree tops for nesting. The Tom’s won’t be far. I shifted a whole group of hens nesting location from a hayfield that was being cut nest and all to an adjoining timber stand with the above practices. Since cutting in the timber there’s been zero nest found in the hayfield and 4-6 hens in the timber management unit 2 years in a row. This video we made shows a practice called edge feathering which focuses on the transition area between timber and field edges. It makes for ideal nesting and brood rearing habitat.
