Once again RPQRF was blessed with generous support by Park Cities Quail Coalition! Their annual banquet raised over $2 million and RPQRF claimed its share with a check for $675,000…
JeffreySorelleOctober 3, 2023
Last January, we solicited heads of bobwhite and scaled quail in order to assess them for the prevalence of eyeworms. Our goal is to produce a “heat map” showing prevalence…
JeffreySorelleNovember 1, 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
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
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
In the summer of 2010, the Rolling Plains of West Texas expected a bumper crop of quail. By October, they nearly had vanished. Now, as part of the largest quail…
rpqrfSeptember 1, 2014
