Posted March 17, 2017 2:24 pm by Comments

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Arkansas Quail
Arkansas Quail
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -(Ammoland.com)- Arkansans of a certain age remember the familiar whoosh of northern bobwhite coveys flushed from fields. That invigorating experience is driving some of them, including Fred Brown, to restore quail across the state, so younger generations can feel the thrill.

Brown’s view from his Corning home illustrates the quail’s demise.

“I can look out and I can’t see the fence on the far end, it seems like it goes on forever,” said the chairman of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Where once were small farms separated by weedy fence rows, and maybe an untended plot with overgrowth, is a precision-leveled field.

Not exactly perfect quail habitat, which greatly diminished during the latter half of the 20th Century. As Jim Harris points out in “The Quest for Quail” in the March/April issue of Arkansas Wildlife magazine, 90 percent of Arkansas is privately owned, and certainly won’t be returning to the small farms and land use that dominated before the 1970s. No other state will, either; but several neighboring states have shown that quail habitat can be restored.

Brown, in his final year on the Commission, says …Read the Rest

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