South Texas Designated First-Ever
‘Legacy Landscape for Northern Bobwhite Conservation’
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he nation’s professional bobwhite community recognized a decades-long tradition of good land stewardship and aggressive bobwhite management and research across roughly 20 million acres of native rangeland this year as South Texas became the nation’s first “Legacy Landscape for Northern Bobwhite Conservation.”
The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) and its technical body, the National Bobwhite Technical Committee (NBTC), announced the designation during NBTC’s annual meeting. Dr. Leonard Brennan, with the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M in Kingsville, accepted on behalf of the legion of “dedicated, responsible landowners, resource managers, 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 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.” For additional information, please visit http://goo.gl/0HhDrB.
Classic South Texas Bobwhite Habitat 14 • NBCI’s Bobwhite Almanac