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George Geisler, Jr.
Camp Hill
The perverted priorities of the PA Game Commission (PGC) are, once again, illustrated by their stocking a quarter million non-indigenous pheasants, yet they have done absolutely nothing to restore the disappearing indigenous wild turkey population.
In a Popular Science magazine article in 2017, the PGC turkey biologist admitted that the agency had no idea that the eastern wild turkey population was dramatically decreasing in Penns Woods. That absolutely amazes me because we could see the gradual disappearance of the turkeys over the last seven years during our drive to our northcentral woods from Harrisburg.
Since then, they have done absolutely nothing to restore the turkey population.
The PGC touts their meaningless "analysis paralysis" turkey research which has been nothing more than an exercise in futility because none of it results in turkey restoration.
Restoring the wild turkey population is not rocket science. The same turkey decline happened in the early 1920s. Back then the PA General Assembly ordered the PGC to buy wild turkeys elsewhere and stock them. Time for that to happen again. That's step one.
Step two is for the PGC to start the trap and transfer program again. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are overrun with wild turkeys where they can't be hunted legally.
Since the PGC touts having hundreds of thousands of dollars of budget surplus, step three is to restart the turkey propagation program.