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Transcription
Sigur has planted wild Tur
in the Guadalupe's, about
2 years ago, taken from the
White Mountains. He say
that the real western wild
Turkey will disappear into
the country where liberated
take care of itself. But th
Eastern Turkey, which, is no
longer a clear strain, but mi
domestic cannot take care
itself in our Western Mountain.
A dozen Eastern Turkey were
liberated in the mts. of norther
New Mexico a few years ago, &
th first night, the coyote got
9, and the remaining 3 the
following night. Mexican Tur
perch in Yellow Pines, & Sigur
has never seen them out of Pi
e country. He does not think
they would thrive in Mesa Verde.