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Backup is now on for every account. Your places, trails, field log and hunt journal will be saved to your account, so a lost or new phone, or a computer, gets them back when you sign in. Only you and the Northwoods Investment LLC admin can see them (and Hunt Party partners, only what you tick to share). Nothing has been copied yet.
You can change this any time in the Places tab.
Search an address or tap My location. You'll see the places within 5 miles where tall roost timber sits next to open ground (hay fields, pasture, crop fields, grassy openings) and, in fall, mast woods, ranked, each with plain-English reasons. Each spot says whether it's on land listed as public, and by which source. Parking and a walk-in are shown only where a listed public lot or public road connects to the spot over listed public land.
Reads habitat and terrain only, not whether turkeys are there today. Turkey Finder checks a map against set criteria and shares waypoints where tall roost timber meets open ground (hay fields, pasture, crop fields, grassy openings), and, in fall, mast woods. A spot is not permission to hunt, enter or cross any land.
Covers New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. Whether turkeys use a spot depends on things no map can see: how many birds live nearby, food that year, weather, nesting, and hunting and other pressure. Check the land's rules, property lines and posting before you go.
Free account: 5 spot searches, up to 3 public spots each, plus your own places and trails. Starter adds weather, solunar and unlimited searches. Pro shows every spot, private land included (marked, no directions), with navigation on public-access spots.
Free account: 5 spot searches, up to 3 public spots each, plus your own places, trails and field log. Paid plans aren't open yet.
Reads habitat and terrain only, not whether turkeys are there today. Turkey Finder checks a map against set criteria and shares waypoints where tall roost timber meets open ground (hay fields, pasture, crop fields, grassy openings), and, in fall, mast woods. A spot is not permission to hunt, enter or cross any land. More
Your own map: mark blinds, setups, gates and anything worth coming back to, and record the trail you walk in on so you can follow it back out in the dark. Free.
Log what you hear, see and find: gobbles, roosts, strut or drag marks, scratching and turkey sightings. Log the places you checked and found nothing, too: the field test counts those. Photo pins are kept with your log but don't count as sign.
Saved on this phone only. Nobody else sees them.
· Harvest pins are yours alone: never counted in the field test, never shared with a party or anyone else.
Reads habitat and terrain only, not whether turkeys are there today. Turkey Finder checks a map against set criteria and shares waypoints where tall roost timber meets open ground (hay fields, pasture, crop fields, grassy openings), and, in fall, mast woods. A spot is not permission to hunt, enter or cross any land.
Turkey Finder reads the habitat and the ground, never the birds. It does not detect, count or track turkeys. In spring it looks for likely roost timber (tall woods, softwood or mixed, often on sheltered slopes or near water) close to open ground where birds commonly strut and feed: hay fields, pasture, crop field edges and grassy openings. In fall it looks for mast woods (oak, and northern hardwoods that can include beech) and field edges, with roost cover nearby. Each spot comes with plain-English reasons, for example "tall softwood 150 yd from a hay field edge, sheltered from NW wind".
The spring and fall labels describe how turkeys use habitat in general, not where this year's birds are. Whether turkeys use a spot depends on things no map can see: how many birds live in the area, food that year, nesting success, weather, and hunting and other pressure. Treat the spots as places to start looking, and let what you hear and find tell you more.
Most hay fields, pastures and crop fields in this region are private farms, so many of the strongest spots are on private land. So there are two rankings. The public-land ranking scores only what lies inside listed public land (a little in from its edge), counts smaller openings such as wildlife openings, log landings and brushy regrowth, and gives some weight to mast woods with no opening nearby. Free and Starter see only this ranking, and only spots that are also on land listed as public: the top 3 by score within 5 miles of your search, or, when there are none, the nearest up to 3 within 25 miles, with the distance and direction from your search point. Some public spots say the opening next to them is outside the public land: stay on the public side. The all-ground ranking scores all land. Pro sees both (never the same place twice), and spots on private land, marked and with no directions, after you switch them on and accept the access disclaimer.
One 0–100 habitat score for every spot. Public-land spots can score lower than farm-field spots because they're ranked only on what's inside the public boundary. A score describes the habitat and terrain, not whether turkeys are there.
A spot counts as public only when its centre and nearly all of its outline lie on land listed as open to the public by a state agency, the U.S. Forest Service or Fish and Wildlife Service, a town, or the USGS Protected Areas Database; each public spot names its source and date ("Public per [source], as of [date]"). A walk-in is shown only when every step, from a listed public parking lot or a public road, stays on listed public land or a public road or trail; if any part can't be verified, no route is shown at all. Everything else is private: a dashed outline, a hollow number and "Private Land · Permission may be required", with no parking, route, nearest road, directions or Guide me in. Owners are never named. Pro can show spots on private land with Show spots on private land (layers button), off at every new visit.
Each spot card gives the distance to the nearest building that isn't an outbuilding, from public structure data, and the safety-zone rule for that spot's state only. It also says which wind directions the ground around the spot is sheltered from. Measure safety zones yourself and confirm with New Hampshire Fish and Game, Vermont Fish and Wildlife or New York State DEC.
A spot on this map is not permission to hunt, enter or cross any land, and a route or parking spot is not permission either. We never tell anyone to hunt or go anywhere. You're responsible for learning and following the laws, seasons and land rules wherever you go, and for identifying any animal before taking it. Respect landowners and posted land. Viewing may be allowed where hunting is not.
National Land Cover Database 2021 (MRLC); LANDFIRE 2024 vegetation type and height (USGS/USFS); USGS 3D Elevation Program; USGS National Hydrography Dataset; FEMA USA Structures; U.S. Census TIGER roads and state outlines; USGS National Map imagery. No eBird or other bird-sighting data is used. Address search by the U.S. Census geocoder and OpenStreetMap Nominatim. Public land and access: NH GRANIT conservation lands and recreation inventory; NHDOT road classes; VT Protected Lands Database (VCGI), VTrans roads, VT ANR parking areas; NY state lands and DEC access data; USGS PAD-US 4.1; U.S. Forest Service roads and trails. Vermont data is CC BY-SA 4.0. Weather: National Weather Service. Solunar: computed on your phone (SunCalc).
Turkey Finder installs from its own site to your home screen; no app store needed. To install it on another phone, or to reinstall after removing it, follow the steps on Get the app. Turn on backup first if you want your places and trails to come back.