This year is the 45th anniversary of the classic "WKRP in Cincinnati" episode that showed turkeys do not, in fact, fly. The sitcom follows the trials and tribulations of a fictional radio station ...

Nine of 10 turkeys taken a year ago were bagged on private land. Slightly fewer than one in 10 fell on public land. Permit sales showed a slow decline after topping out at almost 95,000 in 2003 ...

The spring harvest, at any rate, topped out at 26,156 in 2001, the year after the first statewide season. More than 20,000 birds were checked in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2017 and 2018.

"WKRP in Cincinnati" gave the television world one of the greatest Thanksgiving gifts imaginable when the "Turkeys Away" episode hit screens across the country on Oct. 30, 1978.

He makes it clear the wild turkey population is still strong in Ohio, though there has been inconsistency. ODNR puts the estimated population in 2022 at 160,000-180,000 turkeys.

On Nov. 26, 2014, President Barack Obama pardoned two turkeys, Virgil and Homer, from Cooper Farms in Fort Recovery, Ohio. The near-50-pound turkeys were spared from a Thanksgiving Day feast and ...

Hunting for wild turkeys was allowed in nine counties in 1966, and in 2000 it was opened up statewide. In 2021, there were 26,156 birds checked, the most for any one year. Fall hunting season for ...

"WKRP in Cincinnati" gave the television world one of the greatest Thanksgiving gifts imaginable when the "Turkeys Away" episode hit screens across the country on Oct. 30, 1978.

Beyond the annual wild turkey poult index report, ODNR is also working with researchers from Ohio State University on a wide-scale hen survival study. The multi-state study began in January 2023.