Quail Fact or Fiction Friday!💡 “Red Imported Fire Ants are why we don’t have bobwhites anymore.” Fiction! While fire ants do pose a threat to bobwhite nests, research shows that their impact on nest survival is relatively small — typically causing less than 6% of annual nest loss (Haines et al 2017). Additionally, at a cost of $10-$50 per acre per year, controlling fire ants can be economically difficult. The pesticides recommended can also have adverse effects on other insect populations that bobwhite and other species depend on (Mississippi State University Extension 2007). Habitat loss and lack of management are much bigger concerns. #quailforever #quail #quailfactfriday
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Quail Fact or Fiction Friday!💡 “Red Imported Fire Ants are why we don’t have bobwhites anymore.” Fiction! While fire ants do pose a threat to bobwhite nests, research shows that their impact on nest survival is relatively small — typically causing less than 6% of annual nest loss (Haines et al 2017). Additionally, at a cost of $10-$50 per acre per year, controlling fire ants can be economically difficult. The pesticides recommended can also have adverse effects on other insect populations that bobwhite and other species depend on (Mississippi State University Extension 2007). Habitat loss and lack of management are much bigger concerns. #quailforever #quail #quailfactfriday
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Quail Forever and Pheasants Forever, in partnership with Pepper Entertainment and Mammoth Live, are proud to announce its second annual Concert for Conservation, featuring Muscadine Bloodline LIVE at Uptown Theater on Thursday, March 6 at 7:30pm in Kansas City. Sponsored by Leinenkugel’s, onX Hunt, and Purina ProPlan, the concert kicks off weekend festivities ahead of National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic at the Kansas City Convention Center. All concert proceeds will benefit the upland conservation mission of The Habitat Organization. Tickets on sale October 18th at 10am with proceeds benefitting PF and QF's habitat mission. Learn more at the link below: https://bit.ly/484qlEM Pheasants Forever, Pepper Entertainment, Mammoth, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., onX Hunt, Purina Pro Plan, Muscadine Bloodline
WATCH NOW! “A P.A.T.H. Forward”
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Watch “A P.A.T.H. Forward” Tonight
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On The Wing Podcast Ep. 286: The Pheasant Hunting Forecast, Hunting Tips, and a Game of Battleship, is live. Listen now at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts. https://quailforever.org/BlogLanding/Blogs/Quail-Forever/Podcast-Ep-286-The-Pheasant-Hunting-Forecast,-Hunting-Tips,-and-a-Game-of-Battleship.aspx Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Pheasants Forever Journal Editor Tom Carpenter, PF & QF Director of Communications Jared Wiklund, and Quail Forever Journal Editor Ryan Sparks to preview the 2024 pheasant hunting season. Each individual also offers their top four pheasant hunting tips during the inaugural game of Pheasant Hunting Battleship. Episode Highlights: - Tom Carpenter kicks off the conversation with an overview of Pheasants Forever’s 2024 Pheasant Hunting Forecast based upon biologist input from 22 different states. Wiklund follows up with the “word on the street” based upon anecdotal reports he’s heard in conversations with PF members, landowners, and partners across the country. - The group covers a wide array of pheasant hunting tips from using the wind and being stealthy quiet to the best days of the week and times of the day to chase roosters. - This also marks Purina Pro Plan’s inaugural episode as the presenting sponsor of On the Wing podcast. Thanks to Purina Pro Plan’s longtime commitment to PF & QF and our wildlife habitat conservation mission. The On The Wing Podcast is fueled by Purina Pro Plan
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"Every day – or year – that goes by without a new Farm Bill, our nation’s ability to conserve habitat and increase sportsmen’s access through The Conservation Reserve Program and the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program will suffer," Andrew Schmidt, the director of government affairs for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, shared in a statement. Read the recent article by Food and Wine outlining some of the consequences of an expiring Farm Bill, at the link below
BREAKING NEWS! The U.S. House of Representatives Introduces North American Grasslands Act Today! Link to the full announcement below. More than 70% of America’s prairies, sagebrush sage-steppe, and grasslands ecosystems have disappeared since the 1960s. Those habitat losses have been followed by precipitous declines of grasslands wildlife, particularly bobwhite quail, prairie grouse, pheasants, honeybees, and monarch butterflies. The Grasslands Act would kickstart the voluntary protection and restoration of grasslands and sagebrush shrub-steppe ecosystems – and the livelihoods and wildlife dependent upon them. Functionally, the legislation is modeled upon the highly successful and beloved North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) and would create a landowner-driven, voluntary, incentive-based program to conserve America’s critically imperiled grasslands. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the North American Grasslands Conservation Act. The bill was authored by Representative Nancy Mace (R – SC), Representative Sharice Davids (D – KS), Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R – PA), and Representative Mike Thompson (D – CA). If passed, the legislations would widely be considered one of the most significant steps for grassland conservation efforts in the 21st century. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are part of a coalition of nearly 50 conservation organizations working in support of this critically important grasslands legislation. https://bit.ly/4eAG5BN #ActForGrasslands
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