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In the field: On the trail of LI's wild turkeys

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith Jennifer Smith

Smith is a Long Island reporter who primarily covers the

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The skies were still dark as a team of turkey hunters pulled into Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton on a recent fall morning.

Federal facilities generally frown on live ammunition, and Long Island's wild turkey season - only the second in living memory - wouldn't start for another two months.

Never mind. These biologists were after live prey, their trucks loaded with all manner...

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