Is predator control an answer for turkey populations?

History shows "control" is not a word to use in reference to predators

Raccoons raid turkey nests but are they to blame for a population decline? (USFWS Image Library)

In early winter 1985 I’d been a resident of Alaska for only a few weeks and I was stuffed in the back of a Piper Cub with a caution from the pilot that our trip may be short because a forecast for heavy snow might cut visibility.

We idled down his driveway, to…