Turkeys were trapped in spring and were released into former turkey strongholds where populations recently had vanished due to the lack of adequate protection. Some of the gobblers game protectors caught were kept in captivity with hens found near Hopewell in Bedford County. It's unclear what happened to these turkeys. But the efforts didn't jump-start populations as hoped. In 1913, no doubt inspired by Kalbfus, the General Assembly closed turkey hunting in Pennsylvania for two years to bolster turkey populations. It wasn't necessarily a popular move, but it helped, 38 according to Kalbfus. "...we have a greater supply of wild turkeys at this time by far than there would have been had there been an open season for these birds," Kalbfus wrote a year later. With funding provided by the new hunting license, the Game Commission tried raising turkeys on game refuges. Kalbfus reported 60 turkeys being raised on the "Perry County Preserve" in 1913. Some escaped into the nearby woods and could not be recaptured. Others were released in Franklin, Northampton, Lehigh and Clinton counties. "In Clinton County, wild cats killed