Manager’s Minute

With Fall upon us, activity at the Research Ranch is in full swing. We just wrapped up our Fall covey counts and are now gearing up for helicopter surveys and…

Picture this: a group of hunters’ tent camping on a cold winter night, with a campfire providing warmth. As the brisk breeze picks up, fire embers drift into the air,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…