Wildlife Technology Development Helps Conservation Security Program in Missouri

In a recent report, Missouri NRCS and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) highlighted the landscape level response of northern bobwhite quail to the development of wildlife habitat using NRCS conservation practices.  Written by Bill White of the MDC, the article  shows the cooperative effort by landowners, MDC, NRCS, and other partners.  It is available for reading at the USDA-NRCS Bobwhite Restoration Project webpage.

The important responses being seen in CSP and other USDA programs are the result of technology being developed by the Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC), refined by the State Offices, and planned by the Field Offices.  All of this effort resulted in Scott County, Missouri, being the first in the nation to reach the population goals established by the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative.

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The Scott County first in nation to meet quail habitat goals article highlights Scott County’s achievement and USDA’s Conservation Security Program and Quail Restoration in Scott County, Missouri: A Case Study shows the technical and programmatic issues required for these landscape level changes.

Additional technology will become available in the near future from the USDA-NRCS Bobwhite Restoration Project.  The monitoring of northern bobwhite quail and other wildlife, done by Missouri NRCS and MDC, will also contribute to the CEAP Wildlife Project.
Your contacts are Missouri NRCS State Biologist Pat Graham at 573-876-0908 and NRCS AWCC Wildlife Biologist Ed Hackett at 601-607-3131.