Mission

The National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) is a grassroots organization with 545,000 members in 50 states, 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. Since 1985, more than $230 million NWTF and cooperator dollars have been spent on upholding hunting traditions and conserving more than 11.3 million acres of wildlife habitat. When NWTF was founded in 1973 there were only 1.3 million wild turkeys throughout North America. Since then, the number of wild turkeys has increased to more than seven million birds thanks to state, federal and provincial wildlife agencies, the NWTF, its members and partners.