Turkeys Gone Wild
Maine?s wild turkey reintroduction program may have succeeded all too well.
By Edgar Allen Beem
Galen Larrabee and his brother Harold maintain a dairy herd of 400 milkers and 180 heifers on Aghaloma Farm in Knox. But there are times when it can seem as though there are as many wild turkeys on the Larrabees' farm as there are dairy cows."There are seven dairy farms within sight of each other in Knox, and there are probably 1,000 birds," Galen Larrabee says. "Summers, I'll see two or three here, two or three over there, but as the trees drop their leaves and the snow starts to fly, I'll see ten here and twenty over there.
