With a gift of $55 or more using the link below, you’ll receive a Quail Forever Heavyweight Hoodie as our thanks to you. But most importantly, you’ll help us realize our biggest upland habitat goal to date. At this time, Quail Forever is engaged in our most ambitious initiative ever: The Call of the Uplands campaign. Through this $500 million effort - which your donation supports - we set a goal of protecting and restoring nine million acres of upland habitat over a period of five years. We’re now raising that habitat goal to 10 million acres! Help us meet this goal by donating today at the link below. https://quailforever.org/hoodie

ON THE WING PODCAST EPISODE 196: BOBWHITE AND BLUE QUAIL IN TEXAS WITH GUN DOG SUPPLY'S STEVE SNELL, IS LIVE! Head to the link below to listen now. https://quailforever.org/BlogLanding/Blogs/Quail-Forever/Podcast-Ep-196-Bobwhite-and-Blue-Quail-in-Texas-with-Gun-Dog-Supply%E2%80%99s-Steve-Snell.aspx Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Gun Dog Supply’s Steve Snell to talk bird hunting, dogs, and bird dog gear. Steve is a passionate bird dog man and likely among the country’s top traveling wingshooters racking up truck miles in search of covey flushes from his home in Mississippi to his quail hunting properties in Texas to public lands destinations in Montana and beyond. Episode Highlights: The guys reminisce about a quail hunting trip together on which Bob bagged his first-ever blue quail after making the 17-hour drive from Minnesota to West Texas to hunt over his own bird dogs. Snell also explains his love for hunting “cheating” blue quail (also known as scaled quail and cottontops) over big running English pointers. Snell explains the Gun Dog Supply origin story and shares the business’ top-selling bird dog gear items, while also offering some sage advice for what to list on a bird dog’s ID collar. Just back from a quail hunting trip to Texas, Snell provides a recap of his hunt and an overview for the rest of the Texas quail season. 📸: Emily Spolyer

"And as I shovel dirt and slowly fill that hole, I think of all the meaningless drama and petty grievances that consume us every day, and how a dog, so utterly without guile and so full of genuine, unadulterated love, cuts through all that bickering, backstabbing human artifice and gets right into your heart for no other reason than that’s exactly where it wants to be." Endings and Beginnings: Losing Dogs, Gaining Perspective, and Moving On in a New Year. Read the full article by Quail Forever Journal Editor Chad Love, at the link below. https://quailforever.org/BlogLanding/Blogs/Quail-Forever/Endings-and-Beginnings.aspx