QUAIL FOREVER STRIKES PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Quail Forever is proud to announce a new partnership with the National Park Service at Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The partnership will help fund oak/pine savanna restoration and quail habitat restoration at the park, in addition to bolstering prescribed fire efforts. The military park will become part of a large-scale quail focal area that includes lands managed by South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism. All told both parks cover just over 10,000 acres and both have the same goal to restore the habitat to their Revolutionary War conditions.
“The goal of the park is to restore the Revolutionary era landscape,” said Kayla Silva, a Quail Forever coordinating biologist whose primary work is at the park. “The ecosystem was historically a wide open oak savannah, which also makes for great quail habitat. So by recreating what the park looked like during the battle, we’re also helping restore the historic quail population that was present at the time.”
“Since we began our partnership with the National Park Service back in March 2018, we’ve been able to join forces on multiple projects and public land opportunities,” said Tim Caughran, Quail Forever’s director of conservation delivery. “The new venture at Kings Mountain is really exciting, and our ability to work together with NPS, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (NRCS) Working Lands for Wildlife – Bobwhite Program will allow us as conservation partners to achieve landscape scale results.”
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