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Darke SW Conservation
Ohio’s Wild Turkey Hunting Season Concludes in South Zone
Darke County totals: 60 this year; 44 in 2019
Hunters have harvested 15,718 wild turkeys after four weeks of Ohio’s
2020 spring hunting season. Wild turkey hunting ended Sunday, May 17 in
Ohio’s south zone. The season continues until Sunday, May 31 in the
northeast zone (Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull
counties). Hunters harvested 17,619 wild turkeys during the first four
weeks of the 2019 season.
The top 10 counties for wild turkey harvest following the completion of
the 2020 south zone hunting season include: Belmont (486), Monroe
(460), Guernsey (459), Tuscarawas (458), Meigs (446), Muskingum (434),
Washington (429), Harrison (411), Coshocton (404) and Brown (393).
Youth hunters harvested 1,843 wild turkeys during Ohio’s youth season on April 18-19.
The Ohio Division of Wildlife began an extensive program in the 1950s
to reintroduce wild turkeys to the Buckeye State. Ohio’s first modern
day wild turkey season opened in 1966 in nine counties, and hunters
checked 12 birds. The total number of harvested turkeys topped 1,000
for the first time in 1984. Turkey hunting was opened statewide in 2000.
A county list of all wild turkeys checked by hunters after four weeks
of the 2020 season is shown below. The first number following the
county’s name shows the harvest numbers for 2020, and the 2019 numbers
are in parentheses. Harvest numbers below are raw data and subject to
change.
Adams: 379 (397); Allen: 69 (69); Ashland: 151 (194); Ashtabula: 284
(450); Athens: 345 (441); Auglaize: 50 (37); Belmont: 486 (527); Brown:
393 (377); Butler: 213 (180); Carroll: 336 (361); Champaign: 97 (95);
Clark: 13 (16); Clermont: 336 (310); Clinton: 77 (68); Columbiana: 351
(294); Coshocton: 404 (509); Crawford: 56 (65); Cuyahoga: 5 (6); Darke:
60 (44); Defiance: 204 (180); Delaware: 116 (109); Erie: 39 (46);
Fairfield: 104 (115); Fayette: 12 (12); Franklin: 19 (21); Fulton: 95
(109); Gallia: 362 (376); Geauga: 138 (211); Greene: 21 (24); Guernsey:
459 (486); Hamilton: 141 (103); Hancock: 41 (33); Hardin: 94 (87);
Harrison: 411 (438); Henry: 43 (53); Highland: 371 (366); Hocking: 245
(269); Holmes: 204 (254); Huron: 104 (110); Jackson: 321 (373);
Jefferson: 376 (386); Knox: 283 (319); Lake: 48 (54); Lawrence: 209
(218); Licking: 288 (339); Logan: 104 (106); Lorain: 129 (131); Lucas:
46 (66); Madison: 11 (9); Mahoning: 180 (166); Marion: 41 (28); Medina:
100 (142); Meigs: 446 (517); Mercer: 26 (16); Miami: 22 (22); Monroe:
460 (586); Montgomery: 25 (25); Morgan: 286 (375); Morrow: 125 (129);
Muskingum: 434 (556); Noble: 348 (435); Ottawa: 1 (5); Paulding: 66
(67); Perry: 250 (290); Pickaway: 27 (22); Pike: 184 (224); Portage:
229 (241); Preble: 117 (130); Putnam: 50 (59); Richland: 204 (297);
Ross: 303 (278); Sandusky: 20 (19); Scioto: 244 (276); Seneca: 100
(141); Shelby: 35 (36); Stark: 250 (288); Summit: 76 (74); Trumbull:
234 (354); Tuscarawas: 458 (521); Union: 43 (54); Van Wert: 18 (18);
Vinton: 259 (302); Warren: 95 (97); Washington: 429 (555); Wayne: 112
(113); Williams: 172 (221); Wood: 27 (21); and Wyandot: 79 (76).
2020 total: 15,718
2019 total: (17,619)
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