RANCHING Wildlife South Texas First Legacy Landscape for Quail
Copyright Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Image provided courtesy of Collectors Covey, Dallas. Joseph Hautman, Minnesota, painted the 2011 upland game bird stamp print.
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OUTH TEXAS HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS THE FIRST “LEGACY Landscape for Northern Bobwhite Conservation” in the U.S. by the National Bobwhite Conservation
Initiative (NBCI) and its technical body, the National Bobwhite Technical Committee (NBTC). The designation was given due to decades of good
land stewardship and aggressive bobwhite manage- ment and research across roughly 20 million acres of native rangeland in South Texas. Dr. Leonard Brennan, with the Caesar Kleberg
Wildlife Research Institute (CKWRI) at Texas A&M in Kingsville, accepted on behalf of the legion of “dedi- cated and responsible landowners, resource manag- ers, researchers and quail hunters” who earned the designation. “The national bobwhite community recognizes and
encourages efforts to conserve vast areas of bobwhite habitat, whether through management practices or
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other decisions, that provide long-term viability of not only wild bobwhite populations but also many other associated species,” said NBCI Director Don McKenzie. “South Texas is a longstanding national model for such efforts and tradition, and we commend the region and its people for this enviable status.” Clayton Wolf, wildlife division director with Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), reacted to the designation saying, “TPWD congratulates all the landowners, land managers and hunters of South Texas for receiving this prestigious designation recognizing their efforts to conserve this iconic game bird. TPWD, universities, conservation organizations and other agencies have a long history of working with private landowners and hunters in South Texas to address the conservation, research, and management needs of the northern bobwhite. Through these efforts, decisions on the best management approaches have resulted in
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