The National Wild Turkey Federation is a grassroots, nonprofit organization with more than 550,000 members from the US, Canada, Mexico and 14 other foreign countries. It supports scientific wildlife management on public, private, and corporate lands, as well as wild turkey hunting as a traditional North American sport.

When the NWTF was founded in 1973, there were an estimated 1.3 million wild turkeys and 1.5 million turkey hunters. Thanks to the work of federal, state, and provincial wildlife agencies and the NWTF's many volunteers and partners, there are now more than 7 million wild turkeys and almost 3 million turkey hunters. Turkey hunting has become the fastest growing form of hunting and has the second-highest number of participants of any type of hunting.

Since 1985, more than $258 million NWTF and cooperator dollars have been spent on upholding hunting traditions and conserving more than 13.1 million acres of wildlife habitat. Hunters have also benefited as the NWTF has worked tirelessly to support our hunting heritage and protect and advocate laws that increase hunting opportunity and safety.

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