Wild Turkey Traditional Cache
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Hidden in Pike State forest overlooking the lake
You will have to climb a hill to get to this but it's not brushy.
This cache is dedicated to the smartest of all birds (The Wild Turkey)
The wild turkey is a shy, permanent resident of Ohio’s woods and hills. Infiltrating a flock of these big birds is no easy feat, at least not for this writer and Turkey hunter. Usually when disturbed some of the flock will flap upward on loud wings and others will run full tilt for cover.
Turkeys have long been important to man in North America. Indians hunted them for food, and some natives even domesticated them. Later the wild turkey became a steady food source for white settlers. It earned a symbolic role as the main course of the Thanksgiving meal, which epitomized the successful harvest. Benjamin Franklin so admired the big bird that he wanted it for our national emblem. Comparing it to the bald Eagle, he said: The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original Native of America.
As our nation grew, settlers cleared wooded habitat for farms. And they shot turkeys for food. By the early 1900 hundreds there were not many turkeys left in the wilds.
Fortunately, the State game commissions stepped in and passed laws protecting the birds before they were extinct. Also, some of the money collected by the sale of hunting licenses was and is still used for conservation projects and restocking where necessary in order to sustain a healthy flock of Turkeys in nearly every county in the state.
If you are very stealthy you may see one while looking for this cache.There is a nice prize for the first finder.(First finder will need a compass)
Good hunting
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