Source:  GRANTSHALA, 11/15/20

When I moved to Asheville in 2013, I got a job at The Complicate Naturalist in Biltmore Village. One day a man came into the shop and we started talking about wildlife. I told her that I had recently enjoyed a short film called “My Life a Turkey.” He replies, “The book written by Joe Hutto is based on 'Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season Living Between the Wild Turkey'”. A Florida-based naturalist and biologist, Huto wrote “lights” in 1995 after raising a flock of wild turkeys from eggs to adults in the Appalachicola National Forest. Birds inscribed on him as his parents; They learned about their intuitive knowledge of the natural world and the complex ways that...

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