Illinois Names Bob Caveny the New ‘Quail Coordinator’

By Ammoland

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Bob Caveny of Carlinville, Illinois, is the Land of Lincoln’s new agriculture and grassland wildlife program manager in the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. In that role, he will also serve as the state’s “quail coordinator” in the state’s support of the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI), a strategic, unified effort by 25 state wildlife agencies to restore wild bobwhite quail.

Caveny joins the state’s wildlife program after serving as agricultural lands manager within the Office of Lands. Prior to that, he worked as the conservation stewardship program manager in the Private Lands program, the Illinois Recreational Access Program coordinator for the Sangamon Soil and Water Conservation District, and as a regional wildlife biologist and Farm Bill biologist for Pheasants Forever in Indiana and eastern Illinois, respectively.

Caveny has a BS degree from Eastern Illinois University in Environmental Biology and a MS degree from Texas A&M University in Wildlife Biology. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting, fishing, and managing habitat.

“State quail coordinators are an integral part of implementing the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative, serving as a liaison between our range-wide efforts and their respective state agency. The coordinator …Read the Rest

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