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    Manager’s Minute: Woody Cover for Quail

    by Dana Wright Most rangelands in west Texas have plenty of woody cover for quail, but there are situations when woody cover can be a limiting factor for quail.  Examples…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleMarch 2, 2023
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    Manager’s Minute: Food Plots

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleFebruary 1, 2022
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    Manager’s Minute: Prescribed Fire

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJanuary 1, 2022
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    Manager’s Minute – Harvest Management

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleNovember 30, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute – brood patches

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleNovember 1, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute – prickly pear management

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleOctober 1, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute – Supplemental Water

    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,…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJuly 1, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute – Half-cutting Mesquite

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleJune 1, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute – Habitat Evaluation

    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…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleApril 30, 2021
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    Manager’s Minute

    by Daniel King We would like to introduce the “Manager’s Minute” this month. . Each month we will include a short column highlighting a specific practice or technique related to…
    JeffreySorelle
    JeffreySorelleApril 2, 2021

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