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Restoring Upland Habitat in Arkansas' Grand Prairie
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The Holmes farm, located in Prairie County Arkansas has been in the family for over 100 years and it sits in a quail focal area and right on the border of Arkansas’ Grand Prairie.
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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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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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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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Warm Season Native Grasses for Forage
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With many states experiencing record drought, livestock producers may find themselves in a tight spot when trying to provide forage for their cattle. In the long run, native warm season grasses can offer drought resistant forage during the summer slump when many cool season grasses slow in production.
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Three Ways to Combat Woody Encroachment
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Woody encroachment is one of the primary threats to upland habitat and grazing land today.
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Building Your Own Conservation Team
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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.
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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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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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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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