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Good plan! Holler if I can help!!! Looking forward to a spring with adequate burn weather along with a saturated soil profile! I'm behind and need to move forward.

As with everything in nature, there is variability in this. The raptor migration varies across the state, the wheat height varies, the CRP density varies, the predator population varies, the escape cover varies.........the list goes on. Yes, there are other factors. Parasites, ag practices...

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I guess one of the misnomers that I am guilty of is using the word idling. When you idle a piece of ground you quit using the natural pressures that make that habitat functional. We need a CRP that pays at least as much as the owner would make while farming or grazing it, and it needs to...

I read an article in Quail Unlimited's magazine once about a farmer who used the GPS function on his combine back when it was a new thing. He found out that the unproductive acres in this particular crop field caused the entire field to be unprofitable. By idling the unproductive acres he made...

If we take precision ag one step further and idle unproductive acres, there is where we could get some improvement for our birds. Turning those acres into continuous CRP would help.

If you think about CRP a bit. If you are not in a rainfall belt of over 30 inches per year, those first 3-7 years after the CRP was planted were the very best years. This is due to the lower plant successional stages that the planting went through before the NWSG became dominant. If you think...

Those early stockings were frequently wild birds or F1 birds out of wild birds. Everywhere there was cropland, the cropland habitat was not what native birds were adapted to. Pheasants thrived in those unoccupied habitats. Some nest predators like raccoons were not prolific at the time as the...

If you also look at juxtapositioning of habitats within the current agricultural landscape you also see that our gamebirds do not have a landscape similar to the years when we had lots of birds because crop field sizes have increased, perennial intrusions within the cropland and grassland that...

In addition to what I had said above, after a fire the new growth can harvest all the sunlight. Nothing is shaded or obstructed by duff, old growth, etc. It is kind of a renewal for the adaptive species. Yes, there can be negatives. Generally, those are temporary. From a physical viewpoint...

In general, in the native warm season grasslands in the US, fires a good for not only the grass, but native forbs as well. Our grasslands evolved under the pressures of fire and grazing. The growth points of the grasses are at or below soil level as an adaptation to fire. Nutrients are...

The plums will need frozen before they will sprout. Other than that, I don't think you will have any special treatments. The reason that folks use bare-root seedlings is to avoid the competition loss on the tiny seedlings. From a quail and pheasant standpoint, a solid 3 acres of shrubs will...

You can buy bare-root seedlings of a number of shrubs from Kansas State's Forestry nursery! Get quicker establishment from those over seed.

I got .60 out of this one. Town, just 9 miles east, got 1.25.

I got the wind and luckily no fires with it. We did get .19 from the rain miser!

It is important that we, as hunters, don't put ourselves in a mindset that all grasslands should look like the heavy CRP grasslands we hunt during the winter normally. For a baby chick, that kind of cover can easily result in separation from the brood, inability to hunt for insects, too many...

To generalize based on where you are, the big problems for quail in the area are fescue and woodland expansion and maturity. In general, you can help with your quail numbers by knocking out the fescue, managing for NWSG, and opening up your woodlands to more of a Savannah type density where...

Surmount is another option. It is a mixture of Tordon and Remedy (triclopyr). Anything with Tordon in it needs to be used with caution. It will stay viable for 3 or more years in the soil or groundwater and will also be picked up by any roots from neighboring trees. If you don't want a dead...

I appreciate the professional insights!

Lointer, did we do you any good? A few pics of your habitat could lead us to some more precise recommendations. Knowing where you are located might help as well!