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Shell's Covert: Survival Box Grouse/The 5Bs Hunt Club Finishes Out Season

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:19:53 +0000

I guess you’d say the 5 Bs Hunt Club would be an example of an eclectic group. Members included the three core men, and several other fathers (along with their sons) that migrated in and out...

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Row Crop Field Buffers Show Dramatic Increase in Bobwhite Potential in Most Regions

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:23:12 +0000

A conservation practice introduced in agricultural row crop settings in 2004 by USDA at the behest of the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) has resulted in bobwhite populations up to...

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New South Carolina Quail Group Targets Public Lands

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:14:47 +0000

A new quail group formed in Mt. Pleasant, SC will be targeting habitat work on public land in the state. Their conservation work will focus on Francis Marion National Forest, a 258,000-acre national...

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Of Planted Seeds And Giants

hinman1@utk.edu (Heather Inman) — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:55:40 +0000

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton Please indulge me a few thoughts indirectly connected to quail conservation. Sheryl and I graduated our son from...

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Is USDA’s Nod to Native Grass Research Hopeful Sign for Wildlife, Producers, Consumers?

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:27:34 +0000

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Shell's Covert: 'Working Joe' Quail Hunters

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:46:19 +0000

“Hell, I wouldn’t get up and walk across this farm road to shoot a deer” said dairyman Jack Farmer, Pulaski Co. Virginia, sometime about 1978. I reckon I was about…well, heck, I was 16 and I lived to...

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Tall Timbers E-News

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:09:33 +0000

A new issue of Tall Timbers E-News is available HERE.

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Spring Issue of NC's Upland Gazette Available

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:39:06 +0000

North Carolina's quail coordinator, Mark Jones, takes a look at predator impact on quail populations in the new spring issue of the Upland Gazette HERE.

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New Bobwhite Foundation Gets $1M Committment

jdoty3@utk.edu (John Doty) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:49:00 +0000

A bobwhite enthusiast in Texas kicked off fundraising for the new Bobwhite Foundation this week with a $100,000 endowment …and a promise to match up to $1 million in...

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