Turkey Crisis
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR TURKEYS?800,000 — the estimated decrease in the national turkey population from 2004 to 2014; 50 percent — the percentage decrease in the turkey population in Wayne County, Tennessee, since 2010. Over the past 10 years, turkey numbers have fallen across the east, as much as 65 percent in some places. In this special report, Will Brantley examines the decline (it's a complicated answer), and what we're doing about it (a number of things).