Quail Forever & Longleaf Alliance Ink Partnership for Projects Benefiting Bobwhites

By Ammoland

Quail Forever and Longleaf Alliance Ink New Partnership for Southeast Forest Restoration Projects Benefitting Bobwhites.

Alexandria, LA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Quail Forever and The Longleaf Alliance have established a partner commitment to quail conservation efforts by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The announcement was made during this week’s 12th Biennial Longleaf Conference in Alexandria, Louisiana and sets the stage for future partnership projects to restore/manage longleaf forest in its historic range of the Southeast.

History has taught that bobwhite quail are closely associated with longleaf pine communities of the Southeast primarily because of their co-dependence on fire. Fire is the most important natural process that allows the longleaf pine community to thrive, and frequent fire is essential for maintaining suitable quail habitat. Once covering more than 90 million acres, modern landscape changes have fragmented vast longleaf forests of the Southeast most suitable for quail. Coupled with fire suppression or the elimination of prescribed burning altogether, the loss of early-successional habitat in the longleaf ecosystem has been detrimental to bobwhite populations.

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