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Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership: The Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership enables NRCS and the Forest Service to collaborate with agricultural producers and forest landowners to invest in conservation and restoration at a big enough scale to make a difference.

The Conservation Foundation Private Landowners: The connections between people and land are countless. Land can provide a spiritual sense of place, happy memories of times past, and hope for future generations’ connections with the land around them. Some of our greatest accomplishments have been tied to preserving not only the land, but the legacies that go with it. There are many reasons why someone may want to ensure the long-term protection of a piece of land or restore its ecological health and many ways to accomplish it. Check out the many options that are available for you to protect or restore your special place.

WLFW Newsletter May 2025: FREE Healthy Sagebrush Communities Poster Now Available | NRCS Turns 90 | Grassland Videos

Mississippi Quail Population Trends: See the results of 5 years of quail call-counts conducted on selected Wildlife Management Areas each June and learn how you can share your quail observations with the Bobscapes mobile app.

REGISTER NOW! TRBN Annual Mtg Aug 27-28: Register for the 2025 TRBN Annual Mtg on Aug 27-28 at the Renaissance Hotel in Asheville, NC.

Quail habitat also protects threatened orchid species in Tennessee: Two rare species were recently found on working lands in Van Buren County

How fall covey counts track the impact of habitat restoration: Surveys provide critical insight into management practices for northern bobwhite quail.

Lee County Middle School Hosts Northern Bobwhite Day: How a class of seventh-grade student is learning conservation through the bobwhite quail.

How hurricanes impact quail: STORMS SWEEPING THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST ARE A MIXED BAG FOR NORTHERN BOBWHITES

Meeting the Mestads: 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.

Grazing Study Brings New Insights for Bobwhite Quail Management: 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.

Pollinator plantings benefit the birds and the bees: How implementing pollinator plantings can benefit both quail and pollinator species

The Softball Method: 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.

Innovative Conservation on the Sid Williams Ranch: “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.

Building Your Own Conservation Team: Building habitat on private land isn’t easy. That’s why Barb Heyen has built a “conservation team,” to help transform 120 acres of her property in southern Illinois from low quality pasture to quail and monarch-focused habitat.

Three Ways to Combat Woody Encroachment: Woody encroachment is one of the primary threats to upland habitat and grazing land today.