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HOW TO HAVE MORE QUAIL
How to Have No-Cost and Low-Cost Quail Management
 EDITOR’S
NOTE: You can hunt quail as well as deer and turkey
on your hunting lease or at your hunting club with very
little investment and not much work. According to Dr.
Bill Palmer, game bird specialist at Tall Timbers Research
Station in Tallahassee, Florida, "Most outdoorsmen
will be satisfied to go out with their buddies and a
bird dog and find two to three coveys of quail in a
half-day's hunt. Hunters can create this type of hunting
ground on all kinds of forest land with minimal effort."
This week, we’ll learn how to have more quail
on the property where you hunt and the history behind
why the quail populations across the U.S. have declined.
 The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Congress and
many state departments of conservation have recognized
that landowners and hunting clubs must have financial
incentives to manage their lands for quail to bring
the bobwhite quail back from its extremely low present
numbers.
* Georgia has an aggressive quail-restoration program.
Through this program, officials with the Fish and Wildlife
Division work with private landowners and hunting clubs
to increase habitat for quail. To learn more about Georgia's
program of utilizing state and federal monies to increase
habitat for quail, contact Reggie Thackston, the GADNR
Coordinator BWI programs at (912) 994-7583.
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The State of Mississippi also has actively promoted
the restoration of quail habitat by working with landowners
and the federal government through cross-sharing programs.
To learn more about what Mississippi has done to bring
back quail, contact the small game coordinator, Mississippi
Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks at (662)
325-5119.
* To keep abreast of the latest research on wild quail
and get information on what you can do to increase habitat
and grow the numbers of coveys of quail you have on
your land, contact the Tall Timbers Research Station,
13093 Henry Beadel Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32312,(850)
893-4153.
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