This cache is placed along the Brush Creek Wild Turkey Brood Habitat trail in Sleepy Creek WMA.
Only foot travel is allowed along this trail.
What is a Wild Turkey Brood Habitat you ask? After the poults hatch, they require good brood habitat for survival and growth. Brood habitat generally consists of grasses and forbes that will encourage the insects that the poults need as a food supply for growth. The ground cover needs to be dense enough to encourage insects, but not so dense as to inhibit the poults' movement. Brood habitat needs to be near or adjacent to brushy and wooded areas that provide escape cover and roosting trees. Orchards or groves of trees spaced widely enough to allow sunlight penetration and allow room for mowing provide ideal brood habitat when the grassy areas are mowed once or twice a year. The trees provide overhead cover making the hens feel more secure.
