<span style="font-family: Roboto, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">To grow habitat and pass on hunting traditions, we need hunters and others to step up to help start chapters in the following counties and cities that don’t have chapters. </span>
Quail Forever was asked to our nation’s capital to discuss implementation of the 2014 Farm Bill’s conservation programs. Requests like this to testify in front of our nations’ elected leaders are a tribute to our chapter’s habitat work in partnership with private landowners.
<span style="font-family: Roboto, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">Twenty states have SAFE practices tailored specifically or primarily to the creation of quail and </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">pheasant </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">habitat, and across those 20 states are 82 Quail Forever and Pheasants Forever Farm Bill wildlife biologists helping landowners enroll. </span>
Landowners reported seeing some early broods of bobwhite quail chicks in western Oklahoma during the first week of May, according to biologists with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
There are currently 252,088 bobwhite buffer acres enrolled across the country, leaving 144,382 acres available for enrollment.
Pollinator habitat is excellent brood rearing habitat for quail and <span style="font-family: Roboto, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;">pheasants</span> – habitat that chicks rely on for survival during the first 6-8 weeks of life.