Quail Project is Benefitting Beaver Lake Fish Habitat in Arkansas

Cedar trees removed at the park are going into Beaver Lake as fish habitat structures, With the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joining the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, National Park Service and National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative in the work. It started when the park launched an intensive campaign to restore the battlefield to look like it did in 1862 when the biggest battle of the Civil War was fought. Historical photos and soldier accounts indicate that much of the battlefield was substantially more open.

Much has changed on the landscape in a century and half. One item was the occasional cedar trees of long ago becoming prevalent today due to the removal of fire from the landscape.

Heavy cedar growth is not good for quail either, their encroachment creates a closed canopy and crowds out the native herbaceous plants that quail thrive in, so thousands of cedars have been cut by machine …read more

Source:: AmmoLand