For some residents, it's a spectacle. For others, it's intimidation.

As retired California fish-and-game biologist Jim Maddox best remembers, it all began in the very early 1970s.

They're everywhere in Sacramento this time of year; strutting across streets and holding up traffic around Arden, destroying gardens in Orangevale and leaving droppings on Fair Oaks sidewalks. Wild ...

You can find them in the woods and meadows, along riverbanks and sometimes trotting down a city street. Wild turkeys are prevalent across North America, and even in Hawaii. The continent has one wild ...