Much of the quail range in the Rolling Plains has some component of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)—we have about 450 acres of former CRP at RPQRR. The brush component on…
JeffreySorelleApril 3, 2023
by Daniel King This month we are discussing food plots. In my experience, food plots are one of the “go-to” practices that managers implement on a consistent basis. However, they…
JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2022
by Daniel King This month we are talking about what may be the most versatile and valuable tool in a quail manager’s toolbox: prescribed fire. Bobwhite quail across their geographic…
JeffreySorelleJanuary 1, 2022
by Daniel King and Brad Kubecka There are multiple miscommunications that arise when discussing harvest management. Some of these frankly originate in semantics of a “quail population.” Defining our population…
JeffreySorelleNovember 30, 2021
by Daniel King This month we discuss what we call “brood patches.” Much of a quail’s diet comes from seeds (primarily from forbs) and arthropods, and both of those menu…
JeffreySorelleNovember 1, 2021
by Daniel King Our topic this month is prickly pear management. I will start this off by saying that, despite what some folks may think, prickly pear is not inherently…
JeffreySorelleOctober 1, 2021
by Daniel King As temperatures in the Rolling Plains climb into the triple digits, this month’s Manager’s Minute is about supplemental water. Given the correlation of quail production and rainfall,…
JeffreySorelleJuly 1, 2021
by Daniel King If you manage land anywhere south of central Kansas and west of Dallas, odds are you spend some time fighting a woody plant called “mesquite”. While it…
JeffreySorelleJune 1, 2021
by Daniel King Each month we will include a short column highlighting a specific practice or technique related to quail management. We have compiled a list of relevant topics to…
JeffreySorelleApril 30, 2021
