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permitted. Hunters bagged 641 gobblers during the spring season in 1966 and biologists predict that the 1967 harvest will come close to this figure. The good spring kill indicates that turkey populations are relatively high over most of the state, but next fall’s kill will be gov-., erned largely by nesting and^ rearing success this summer. During the spring and early summer most wild animals are busy with the problems of rearing a family and it is at this time that they run the greatest risk of beinggivenan unwelcome assist by well intentioned individuals who kidnap their babies in the mistaken belief that they are better able to rear them than their wild parents. Even those few that are successfully reap ed in captivity , are seldom able to adjust to their environment upon release. Most die at the hands of their kidnapper. Fawns are the most tempting bait for the wildlife kidnappers because they arerela tively unafraid of humans and | because the doe deer will seldom expose herself, giving the impression that the fawn has been abandoned. The fawns become dangerous as they near maturity and almost invariably a game warden must be j summoned to remove the ani
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