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WLFW East Region Conservation Webinar Series: Northern Bobwhite Session #8 “Bobwhite Breeding Season Roost Site Selection in an Ag Landscape”
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Session 8 of the “Northern Bobwhite” mini-series was presented by Olivia Lappin with Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever. This session focuses on research looking at vegetation structure selection for roosting sites during the breeding season. Topics covered include bobwhite capture methods, banding and collaring quail, bobwhite habitat requirements, research methods and results, and maximizing usable space.
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The Softball Method
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Determining the quality of upland habitat is one of the first steps in making better management decisions. One of the simplest ways to accomplish this is with the Softball Habitat Evaluation Technique (SHET) method. Simply put, it’s using a softball to mimic how quail use the landscape.
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Innovative Conservation on the Sid Williams Ranch
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“I’m addicted to taking a piece of land that’s worthless and turning it into something,” says Sid Williams, a rancher and landowner whose innovative conservation work in South Texas is making an outsized impact for bobwhite quail.
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Kicking Out Cool Season Grasses
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Replacing cool season grasses with native warm season grass can be a challenge. Foliar spraying is a cost-effective way to kickstart that conversion.
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Meeting the Mestads
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When Bruce and Marla Mestad bought thirty acres in northern Missouri, they didn’t expect to find that their fields were home to a seedbank for remnant prairie. With the help of Quail Forever and the USDA-NRCS, the Mestad’s have brought life back to their slice of prairie in north central Missouri.
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Grazing Study Brings New Insights for Bobwhite Quail Management
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The University of Tennessee, in cooperation with the USDA Workings Lands for Wildlife and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, recently completed a four-year study that aimed to explore how the combination of planting native warm-season grasses and cattle grazing may benefit bobwhite quail and other upland birds.
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It's All in the Soil
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Do you know your dirt? A local USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) representative can help landowners get up to speed on what sort of ground they’re working with.
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NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife Presents: Breakfast With Biologists-March 27th 2025
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Woodstown, NJ – Quail Forever, in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and the New Jersey Audubon Society, will cohost an informational outreach event for landowners on Friday, March 27th, from 7:00 am to 9 am at the Woodstown Diner. The event aims to provide landowners with valuable information on habitat restoration and wildlife conservation efforts available to them.
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ANCHOR: An Opportunity to Change Landscape Connectivity Networks and Conservation Delivery At-Scale in the U.S.
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Abstract: Connectivity modeling has been a tool available to the conservation community
since the 1980s that guides our responses to habitat fragmentation. While the sophistication
of computer modeling continues to grow, on-the-ground delivery remains challenging and
lacks urgency. We present an approach to scale up delivery and do so within effective
timeframes. The approach, termed ANCHOR (Areawide Networks to Connect Habitat and
Optimize Resiliency), is grounded in connectivity science but executed in a manner that
is flexible, expandable, and measurable. ANCHOR goes beyond the traditional protected
area focus for establishing connected biomes to maximize the contributions of existing
public lands and expand private landowner participation. The approach is applied using
an umbrella species to represent a faunal group and/or multiple taxa to deliver co-benefits
of landscape connectivity. Public lands receive connectivity rankings that are then used to
engage potential connectivity partners who commit land units and collectively monitor
improvements in habitat quality and landscape resiliency. The ANCHOR approach can
guide unprecedented participation across agencies and departments to create public lands
networks, while private and corporate lands establish landscape connections. To illustrate
the approach, we present an example of native grasslands conservation in the central and
eastern U.S. and an emerging partnership with the Department of Defense.
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