Wild turkeys carve out place in Mich.

Charles E. Ramirez The Detroit News Comments Purchase Image Wild turkeys eat remnants of the harvested corn at Grand Valley Farms in Rives Junction. The turkeys have been damaging his corn, wheat and soybean crops. (Mark Bialek / Special to the Detroit News) Rives Township, Mich. — The wild turkey’s comeback in Michigan has some crowing, but it’s also ruffling a few feathers. The sometimes noisy birds are plentiful throughout the state and hunters bag about 40,000 a year. That’s quite the turnaround for the state. By the early 1900s, gobblers and hens had been wiped out by habitat loss and unregulated hunting. “We went from having lots of wild turkeys to zero turkeys by the turn of the...