Page 26 - Long Leaf Pine News Today

Here is a habitat called long leaf pine. big stately pine trees and underneath the pine trees are open savannahs of grass. in order to manage for these open savannahs of grass you have to use fire. i know it is counter intuitive but fire is natures original and best wildlife management tool. it is expensive when you try to burn in a controlled way. here we do controlled burns to burn out the thicket so the grasses can grow and a the quail can use the grasses for food and cover. for these land ow...

Quail. the numbers here in north florida and south georgia are so strong because individual land owners with their own resourcestheir own oooo-oooo driven by a passion for hunting quail have been protecting and conserving wild quail habitat for probably more than 100 years. and they have done it to such a degree that they have saved about 300,000 acres of this wild quail habitat. i know that probably doesnt mean a lot to folks out here. you are from new york. central park. 300,000 acres is 350 c...