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Natural Resources and Conservation

2017

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Missouri

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Breeding Season Survival And Nesting Of Northern Bobwhite On Native Prairie Versus Traditionally Managed Conservation Areas In Southwestern Missouri, Thomas R. Thompson, Frank L. Loncarich, R. Kyle Hedges Nov 2017

Breeding Season Survival And Nesting Of Northern Bobwhite On Native Prairie Versus Traditionally Managed Conservation Areas In Southwestern Missouri, Thomas R. Thompson, Frank L. Loncarich, R. Kyle Hedges

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) management on Missouri Conservation Area lands has traditionally focused on providing an interspersion of grass, crop, old field and woody cover to enhance edge habitat often juxtaposed with disked idle areas and food plots. This traditional approach, or the Intensive Management Model (IMM), is often implemented with the goal of providing all essential habitat components within a 40-acre area. While this model can produce useable quail habitat in agriculture-dominated landscapes it may not be the most effective or efficient approach to producing quail in grassland-dominated landscapes found in southwest Missouri. Conservation area mangers for …


National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Focus Area Monitoring In The 2c Focus Area, Missouri, Beth Emmerich, W. T. White, E. Lee Metcalf Nov 2017

National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Focus Area Monitoring In The 2c Focus Area, Missouri, Beth Emmerich, W. T. White, E. Lee Metcalf

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) began establishing Quail Focus Areas (QFAs) on private lands in 2004. The goal of QFAs is to increase and expand quail habitat management efforts at a larger scale. Because most (93%) of Missouri’s landscape is in private ownership, habitat improvement programs on private lands have greater potential to impact quail populations than on public lands alone. In spring of 2013, a group of MDC staff and Quail Forever biologists began monitoring bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) and songbirds in a portion of the 2C QFA in Carroll County, Missouri as well as in …


Fall Quail Densities On Public Lands In Missouri: A Decade Of Monitoring, Beth Emmerich, Thomas V. Dailey Nov 2017

Fall Quail Densities On Public Lands In Missouri: A Decade Of Monitoring, Beth Emmerich, Thomas V. Dailey

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) fall population density has been determined annually since 2005 on 19 public land areas managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC). These demonstration areas, known as Quail Emphasis Areas (QEAs), were created as part of the MDC Strategic Guidance for Northern Bobwhite Recovery: 2003-2013. Management of QEA bobwhite populations, habitat and hunting has been evaluated periodically at the area, regional and statewide scale, and the program has been perpetuated in an updated 2014-2024 Strategic Guidance. QEAs were selected to represent MDC administrative regions and are highly variable in many aspects, e.g., size range …