Quail Management Field Day

Prairie Drifter

Prairie Drifter

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My Quail Forever biologist and I are putting on a quail management field day on the 28th starting at 9:00 a.m. We will start at the shelter house at Kingman State Fishing Lake on State Lake Road. To get there, it's 7 miles west of Kingman on highway 54, turn north on NW 70th then left just north of the concrete plant. That road will go west parallel to the highway before turning north. Stay to the right and the shelter house is about .7 miles north of the curve. Drinks will be provided (non-alcohol). We will be covering plant ID, habitat, grazing, insects and their production, and a wide array of habitat management techniques. It will run 9-12 and we'll be plenty willing to stay after and answer questions. It's PD on the Prairie:)
 
I went to one put on by Holly up here north of Wamego today.

It was really informative. Getting to see edge feathering, covey headquarters, and some of the other habitat work in person was very helpful. I also got to see some CRP and pasture that had been burned this year, Showed me that my grass is way to thick.

Got some instruction on how to kill the brome off that is getting up under all my good plum thickets. Out comes the sprayer.

I highly recommend getting to one of these.
Have fun Troy
 
Really would like to go to this one, but it's just not going to work out. I get back from a three day business trip on Friday and leave mid-day Saturday for some fishing in Arkansas.

The QF/PF guy emailed me about it a week or so ago.
 
I attended the seminar today. It was excellent. Zac Eddy, PF/QF was one of the presenters, along with a bug lady and our own Prairie Drifter. I counted thirty in attendance. Good mix of people there. As always, I took some knowledge away that will help back on the Ponderosa, making it just a little better for those bob white quail.

Thanks!
 
Thanks Maynard! I think that the rain may have kept a few people home, but 30 was a nice turnout. We had a lot of excellent questions and I think both land owners as well as hunters and agency people. Several PF chapter members were in attendance, so maybe some of the knowledge will be passed on. It's nice to have rain get in the way for a change. Better than heat anytime! Folks kept us or maybe we kept them until 2.
 
I should have taken a picture of Prairie Drifter and his cones. He had a tall narrow cone and a short flat cone and talked about the field of view a raptor has of a quail on the ground. It is quite a visual aid to see why short cover, especially like our wheat this year really opens the quail up to the raptors. Kudos to Prairie Drifter for a great presentation. :10sign:
 
That's high praise from a well respected friend, thanks!!! I always wonder how I come off. I feel like a dunder head at times. Having good visual aids can bring folks that hadn't thought in that way a long ways, and I think some of the questions indicated that we were getting through! The sound effects were awesome though! God was in charge of audio!
 
Troy,
I appreciate the various viewpoints you express since they are based upon professional experience. Having been exposed to many thoughts and opinions in my lifetime I feel it is special when the information offered is from a person who has put that information into practice.

Thank you
 
SetterNut said:
Well you could come up to my place and get some hands on training.
Bring your sprayer and chain saw :D
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I may have to take you up on that some weekend. All I'd ask is the opportunity in turn to run my setter and see a wild covey of quail in the fall, I dont even need to shoot :thumbsup:
 
murphya said:
Troy,
I appreciate the various viewpoints you express since they are based upon professional experience. Having been exposed to many thoughts and opinions in my lifetime I feel it is special when the information offered is from a person who has put that information into practice.

Thank you
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Thanks Murphya! There's plenty of hokum out there and even more misunderstanding. It's good to talk about those and realign what's real and what's not and set a base of understanding to help them understand why. We talked about food plot, surrogators, and stocking in general. Plenty of folks think the cure comes in a bag or can be fixed artificially. Sometimes it just helps to see what the puzzle looks like put together and then cross the road and see how, on the same soils, it can be done so wrong. Hopefully, we gave folks a painting of what the pieces of the puzzle are and how they should go together. Having some quail serenading us during the process doesn't hurt. It's a lot of work, but maybe it should happen more often and in a wider variety of habitats or on a wider variety of topics. Just finding out how to evaluate where your place is at and where it is supposed to be can be enlightening. You have to know that before setting your plan of how to get from one to the other.
 
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