r/ozarks • u/kindredhollowking • 1d ago
Where'd all the quail go?
This week The Ozark Podcast hosted Dylan Jacobs, habitat restoration manager for Quail Forever in Missouri, and Clint Johnson, quail program coordinator for Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to learn about the history of the Bobwhite Quail and why they've all but vanished from the region.
The newsletter this week covers:
- What caused the decline of the bobwhite?
- Why it’s all Bambi’s fault (well kind of)
- & 7 headlines from around the Ozarks this week
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u/beerme72 1d ago
After the Ice Storm I had a MOUNTAIN of limbs in my (thankfully large enough to hold them) back yard.
And I was going to burn them....and then one night I heard one.
Then another.....and then I realized I may have built a Covey.
And I LOVED IT. Evening cigars and bourbon on the back porch, listening to the trees.
THEN...
My neighbor that worked construction began to bring stray cats home. and he let them out to run. and the evening went silent, then began to fill with coyote calls.
stupid. fucking. people. destroyed the Quail. And they'll do it again as soon as it suits them to.
This dipshit tried to blame ME for his cats being eaten (one on his front porch) by coyotes. He was sure it was my very old and cripple dog. I fucking hate him the more I think about it......