New Landowner WV

[Nidanation]

Hey guys I'm a new landowner in Putnam County WV. It was my grandpas land and now it's mine. Anyways I'm just curious as to what advice y'all may have to try and draw and hold turkeys. It's only 99 acres so I don't expect to keep flocks of turkeys but I'd love to do whatever I could to make it extremely turkey friendly! It's mostly just hardwoods with very minimal "fields" probably a 2 acre gas well field is all of the fields! Any advice would be great!

[Tail Feathers]

Turkeys need roosting trees, water every day and a food source.
Provide those and you should have turkeys if they are in your area.  In the spring, leave some area pretty unmowed and thick for nesting.
Sounds like you have the trees for roosting.  Water is important, they drink every day, usually pretty soon after flydown I'm told.

[Nidanation]

Thanks for the response!

[TauntoHawk]

If I was drawing up a property I'd want mature hardwoods, winter thermal cover like hemlock, brushy areas and edge habitat for nesting, and some open areas or fields, and like mentioned water source.

It can be tough to control or jam all that in a small property but don't over look doing things on a small scale. My uncle has 60 some acres in upstate PA it had some turkeys some of the time most springs. When they were present they roost in 1 of two locations. We added small 1/3 or less size food plots and a water hole within 100yds of each location and the last year we had the best spring ever on that property they seemed to roost there almost daily year round.

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[ddturkeyhunter]

Your 99 acres is a small track of land we have 86 acres in MN also small. But big enought to shoot my turkey each year now, just can't run and gun. If you have any real low ground you can maybe do some dig out for standing pond water. Drop a few trees to open a few spots in woods and plant some clover. Alot of things you can do on your own.

[darron]

One thing we did was hinge cut non desirable and non roost trees on our deer sanctuary area. Hens love to nest in the tree tops. Instant cover and food.