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Way to go Father and son!

With these new insecticides suspected of being part of the honey bee and pollinator crash, makes a guy skeptical of what the effect is on the insects that gamebird chicks so depend upon. I think this story will get bigger in time.

Again I am not explaining this well enough. The division's budget did not go up 318%. It did go up some, but the new method of doing federal aide allowed us to move areas in and out of PR as needed. Some area's budgets went up, others went down, and some may have stayed the same. What it did...

That was state wide, not just Byron Walker. There are 3 methods of drawing down through PR. The new division director, as a result of his deputy director's training with USFWS, found one that provided the division that kind of improvement! I had nothing to do with that, just benefitted.

Political and commission questions I'll leave for someone else to touch. As for keeping track of residents vs non-residents, I have 4685 acres that I manage myself. I have seasonal help mostly in the summer. We had permits for 9 years that took 7% of my time to manage and none of that time...

Native, you WERE right to a point. However, there has been a wholesale turnover in the leadership of KDWPT in the past 3-5 years and the result was this change in the way we do our federal aide. We have full-time folks whose job is federal aid. Now with current leadership, they have worked...

I get a chance Husker, I'll ask! Thanks!

Worked fire breaks maybe 2-3 days this week. I saw 1 crafty buck trying to sneak away unseen, 3 possums and 1 skunk the first day and 2 possums and 1 skunk the next! Need to start working dogs again, so I'm hoping to get onto some survivors while doing that.

There are employees in KDWPT that are really good at scrounging. As an example, I'll offer up my latest scrounge list. In 2012-2014 KDOT was upgrading the highway through my wildlife area from a super 2 lane to a 4 lane. I found out that the contractor was paying my neighbors to take broken...

I appreciate that, but the personality rubs were getting in the way of reasonable information transfer. I can't quote numbers, but the Public Lands Division Director sent his assistant to Denver for training on federal aide in the past 3 years or so. As a result, we have changed the method we...

Guys, this has turned into the old "my dad can beat up your dad" argument with no realistic landing spot. From all of the input, it is fairly logical that the only variable we have any control of is the number of licenses being sold. We have control of that in that we can start taking kids...

Several things. First, I have had a bunch of friends that have drifted either out of hunting all together or have switched from being primarily a bird hunter to only deer and duck hunting. These folks have the same access they always had but are just in a different place in life than they were...

Guys, this has turned into a dungeons and dragons fight with imaginary statistics and more imaginary bully-pulpiting. We have so many reasons why people are not buying licenses or going afield these days without us fighting amongst ourselves and making bad medicine in our existing ranks. Yes...

You're so lucky! I believe guiding on public land was made illegal in 2020. Trying to add acres to my area right now. It was introduced in the Senate a week or two ago. As for #1, I do all my management directed toward quail on the uplands as I know all quail habitat is also deer, turkey...

It's all math and statistics. The potential for the 21 season is based partly on the size of the population going into the breeding season. Then all the variables kick in. One variable is the physical condition of the hens coming out of the winter. I'm betting that is more of a negative than...

It is fairly sure that this cold snap will have taken it's toll on the birds. This season's population was already down from 2-3 years ago. We are in a drought pattern right now. If that persists into the nesting and brood-rearing seasons, the prospects for this fall will be grim. I'd say...

Was -11 or lower this morning with a -31 wind chill! Friday can't come soon enough for my birds!

Here is a quote from the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch: Brrrrrr . . . I'd hate to be a quail over the next several days. It's deja vu Dec 1983, which is the coldest extended weather period I've ever experienced. Forecasts call for ice, snow, and low temps around 0 degrees F on Sunday and...

Quail are a boom and bust species that has density dependent reproduction responses to population crashes. There are plenty of variables involved and those could lengthen or shorten the down curve in the population. My wildlife area quail population is usually on a 5 year cycle. The flooding...