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    Wildlife Tax Valuation Workshop Scheduled for Friday, March 15

    Are you a new landowner? Have your management practices changed on your property jeopardizing your ability to qualify for an agricultural valuation for ad valorem tax purposes? Then you may…
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    JeffreySorelleMarch 1, 2024
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    The Privilege of Quail Hunting in Texas: A Call to Preserve and Protect

    As the end of the Texas quail season came to a close, my thoughts began to shift from bird dogs to our place in the history of quail hunting. Quail…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleMarch 1, 2024
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    Quail Response to Large-Scale Wildfires in the TX Panhandle

    Summarized by Dale Rollins Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation Quail hunters north of Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle enjoyed a good quail season this year. Most of that region…
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    JeffreySorelleFebruary 29, 2024
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    Episode 58 – Sustained Yield in Quail Hunting

    Podcasts - Dr. Dale on Quail This month’s guest is Dr. Abe Woodard with the East Foundation. Our topic is a “Quail 303” discussion of “sustained yield” of bobwhites in…
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    JeffreySorelleFebruary 22, 2024
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    Episode 57 – Death from Above

    Podcasts - Dr. Dale on Quail This month’s guest is Tyler Sladen of Albuquerque, NM. Tyler is a serious falconer who specializes in hunting quail with his Tiercel goshawk “Jimmy…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJanuary 20, 2024
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    QuailMasters 2024: Answer the Call

    We hope your New Year’s Resolution includes doing more to help wild quail in Texas! One way to help quail is to learn all you can about their biology, the…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJanuary 2, 2024
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    2023 Fall Trapping Summary

    Our winter trapping effort at the RPQRR was completed recently. Over two weeks we trapped 710 individual birds, including our first ever “blob” (bobwhite x blue hybrid). Sixteen of the…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJanuary 2, 2024
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    Helicopter count update

    We conducted our Fall helicopter survey at the RPQRR and I am happy to report some good tidings. We saw 7.0 birds per mile, the highest seen since 2017 (albeit…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleDecember 4, 2023
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    Episode 55 – Graziers Down Below: Desert Termites

    Podcasts - Dr. Dale on Quail Perhaps you’ve never noticed a key herbivore that may be impacting your quail habitat. They’re desert termites, and odds are, there are millions beneath…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleNovember 20, 2023
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    Cross Timbers Chapter Donates to RPQRF

    We tip our hats this month to the Cross Timbers Chapter of Quail Coalition in Ft. Worth. Their annual banquet (held last week) grossed over $650,000. Dr. Ryan O’Shaughnessy picked…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleNovember 3, 2023
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