MWTHA

Here's hoping that you barbecued up a spring gobbler for your 4th of July celebration-some of us enjoyed success this spring, and some of us found far less gobbling, far fewer birds, and much tougher hunting. If you found fewer birds this spring, then you know how important it is to get what birds we have in our areas through the winter to come.

As the Traverse Bay chapter has done for the past 35 years, members of the chapter did their best to feed populations which appear to be abundant in some areas of Area J, totally depleted in others, in a distribution program that began on January 1 and ended in March, due to lack of funds in our savings account.