11th annual field day is Friday, May 24 from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the ranch located 11 miles W of Roby on US 180. A news release on…
JeffreySorelleMay 14, 2019
Coupled with increased awareness of the parasite work being done by the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation, a dismal 2017-'18 quail season in West Texas and Oklahoma left many hunters pointing…
rpqrfOctober 15, 2018
“We’ll start a fire on both sides of this field, and it will eventually burn together,” says Dale Rollins as we ride his side-by-side utility vehicle along the ranch’s interior…
rpqrfAugust 20, 2018
Two years after quail populations in Texas’ premier quail regions hit peaks not seen in a generation, abundance of the iconic, ground-nesting game birds in some of those areas has…
rpqrfJuly 23, 2018
The most important advance in 80-plus years in our understanding of bobwhite quail ecology—or, more to the point, bobwhite quail mortality—has been the discovery that a certain parasitic eyeworm, Oxyspirura petrowi, not…
rpqrfMarch 1, 2018
At the RPQRR, the focus has been quail for more than a decade. All of the habitat manipulation, mesquite and prickly pear removal and prescribed burns are designed to better…
rpqrfFebruary 13, 2018
After a record 2016 quail season in the Rolling Plains of West Texas, bird hunters want to know what's in store for 2017. Bradley Kubecka thinks it will be about…
rpqrfJuly 11, 2017
Quail hunters threw a party Thursday at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. It was a fitting venue at which to celebrate what is arguably the greatest of game birds in…
rpqrfMarch 11, 2017
No one could explain why the birds disappeared from the Rolling Plains of West Texas. It was the autumn of 2010, and for the past thirty years that Rick Snipes had…
rpqrfOctober 11, 2015
