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This year’s total is up compared with the 2018
statewide turkey harvest of 13,494. The statewide preliminary
total includes the 2019 Youth Turkey Season harvest of 1,364
birds, compared with the 2018 youth harvest of 1,143 turkeys.
The statewide record total was set in 2006 when 16,569 turkeys
were harvested.
Spring turkey hunting was open in 100 of Illinois’ 102 counties.
The 2019 season dates were April 8-May 9 in the South Zone and
April 15-May 16 in the North Zone. The Youth Spring Turkey
Season was March 30-31 and April 6-7 statewide.
Turkey hunters this spring took a preliminary total of 6,607
wild turkeys during all season segments in the South Zone,
compared with 5,507 last year in the south. The North Zone
preliminary harvest total this year was 8,582 wild turkeys,
compared with 7,987 in northern counties in 2018.
The top five counties for spring wild turkey harvest in the
South Zone in 2019 were Jefferson (480), Randolph (383), Marion
(328), Union (310), and Pope (310). The top five North Zone
counties for spring turkey harvest this year were Jo Daviess
(541), Fulton (402), Pike (381), Hancock (344), and Adams (331).
A table with county preliminary harvest totals for the 2019
Illinois Spring Turkey Season, and 2018 comparable harvest
totals, is below.
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