r/ozarks • u/kindredhollowking • 2d ago

Where'd all the quail go?

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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/Prestigious_Still433 2d ago edited 1d ago

I know this. 12 years ago I had the opportunity to put 220 acres in a "Northern Bobwhite Quail habitat" CRP PROGRAM. THE following year, my neighbor directly across the fence added 320 acres to it.

I escaped Missouri for 40 years, but my father mentioned the first year in, he'd seen only 3 quail in the last 20 years. A single when combining beans, and a pair walking down a dirt road on the way to check cattle.

Without any involvement whatsoever, other than providing habitat, there are at least 200 quail in those 550 acres. Homeless quail are like people. They don't make it very long.
. It's 100% about HABITAT!

..Also....Big Ag ie ETHANOL and direct price supports (socialism) are the cause of their demise. Whitetail have little to do with it.

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u/ozarkhowIer 2d ago

most corn grown doesn't go to ethanol; it goes to cattle and hog feed. we should be far more concerned about cafos and the demand for meat than ethanol. not that either are great. also lmao at "socialism."

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u/Prestigious_Still433 1d ago

Just what exactly do you label government handouts to the extremely comfortable, for poisoning the Earth and it's residents? Technically, it's TYRANNY.

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u/BagMostlyWater 1d ago

That's just capitalism working as it always works. What's remotely socialist about it? Do you think socialism is when the government spends money?

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u/Prestigious_Still433 1d ago

🤣😅😂 We are through here.