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Students Work to Bring the Wild Turkey to Northern Maine
By Teen Adventure
Students at East Grand High School in Danforth, Maine are working to bring the wild turkey to their area and building a legacy in which they can be proud. Wild turkey are in southern sections of Maine but not in the northern region of the state where Danforth is located. Quality turkey habitat (food, cover and water) did not exist in Washington County when students first began working on this project. So, students have been creating it – approximately 2000 acres of it. Through their High School Science Teacher David Apgar and District Game Warden Lloyd Perkins students are learning about the needs of the wild turkey, developing plans to change the habitat and developing partners to assist. The project is a true community effort. Landowners allow students in to work on their land to make changes to the habitat. Local citizens donate corn and bring their farm equipment to rototill the fields. Students test the soil to determine what would grow best and fertilize if necessary. They help plant the corn and reclaim crab apple orchards to provide important winter feed. Students clear out the brush around the trees, remove dead limbs and prune the trees to help the crab apple trees flourish. Once the habitat is established the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will release a few breeding pair of wild turkey. Science Teacher David Apgar says, “This is a much better way of teaching than sitting in the classroom and opening a book. Students incorporate their basic science and ecology lessons into this hands on macro-project.” Students have already learned to use turkey calls and you would think the turkey were already established with the gobble-gobble and cluck-clucks heard around the school. It’s not often students can participate in bringing a species back to a state. These students are working hard to make it happen and look forward to a population of wild turkey in the near future. Teen Adventure applauds their efforts!
Posted May 2001
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