The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the National Turkey Federation are providing Kansas State University biologists $1.5 million of the $1.8 million being used to research the declining turkey population in Kansas.

State Senator Virgil Peck says he wonders if that money is being well spent.

Peck says as a believer in small government he looks at this and asks why is the Kansas government spending that kind of money on this.  The biologists will capture and mark Eastern and Rio Grande wild turkeys across Kansas public and private lands and place transmitters and leg bands on them to monitor their locations and movements.