Where, specifically, do the wild turkeys in California live?
Their favorite habitat is oak woodlands, like the Sierra foothills, at 1,000 feet elevation. Wild turkeys eat bugs, and they graze on green grass, acorns, seeds and wild grapes. They also like digger-pine areas. Wild turkeys are on only a few public lands in California — most of them are on private land because they are smart enough to know that they are safer there. Cache Creek has a public place that’s OK, there’s another place called Knoxville, near Lake Berryessa, and there’s also the Spenceville Wildlife Area, 20 miles east of Marysville, and the Daugherty Hill Wildlife Area, near Collins Lake. The best private area to hunt wild turkeys in is by Penn Valley, near Grass Valley. Ukiah also has a lot of turkeys. But, really, there are wild turkeys in the Sierra foothills all through California. How big do wild turkeys get? The biggest turkeys in the record books are 36 pounds — those are all Eastern wild turkeys. In California, wild turkeys don’t get much bigger than 25 pounds. Is
