Host Brad Clay has been selected to serve on the board of directors for Turkeys For Tomorrow. Brad has watched turkey numbers decline across the country and specifically on his families ranch in western Oklahoma and began searching for answers. Thats how he got involved with Turkeys For Tomorrow. With their efforts to find results to the issue and give real solutions to the problem that he can learn from and help cultivate his property to have more turkeys.
“Fifteen years ago if you told me I had one hour to kill a turkey I could have went behind my grandparents house on our families ranch where rush creek meet the spill way of our watershed. You would find the most beautiful cottonwood bottom and every night for 30yrs of my life 150 turkeys roosted there every night. I could call in a bird within an hour. Unfortunately, no birds have roosted in those trees in ten years. Our numbers have declined almost yearly. And when my eight year old son asked me to take him turkey hunting and I had to tell him we didn’t have enough birds to hunt, well that was the final straw. I had to do something.” -Brad Clay
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The officers and board of directors of Turkeys For Tomorrow (TFT) will work diligently with cooperating state wildlife agencies, university professors and students, wildlife professionals, and hunters to identify the most pressing issues facing wild turkey populations while working to preserve time-honored turkey hunting traditions. TFT will rely on the aforementioned partners for input to determine where funding is most needed. Once a project is chosen and the funding amount determined TFT, will apply those funds to that project during the year in which the project is started and each subsequent year thereafter as needed when funds become available as determined by the TFT board. The chosen agency or agencies can only spend TFT funds on that project. Agencies receiving TFT funds will be asked to apply matching funds and report results to the TFT board of directors. Agencies receiving TFT funds will be required to provide a written, itemized account of how and where the funds were spent and report the progress of the project to the TFT board of directors so we can issue progress reports to our contributors.
