Field Border Conservation Practice Job Sheet. Managing Grasslands for Profit. Habitat losses have been caused by an increase of large, poorly managed or unmanaged fields with just one type of grass like fescue. Fescue has to be one of the most UN-beneficial grass and even the cause of low population of quail, turkey and even rabbit due to the fact that it leaves no bare ground like warm season grasses and forbs such as wildflowers, switchgrass, bluestem, indiangrass with all tend to clump. Providing pathways between the plants while providing cover.
Annual disturbance provides essential elements of quail habitat bare ground and annual weeds.
Other practices may be available, depending upon local habitat needs. The bad news out of 25 Quail Unlimited chapters in Missouri the Southeast Missouri area has no chapter here. The closet is St. Louis and Springfield. That does not stop you from being a member or consider this start up a chapter. They have even started just this year dove society that can be the same quail unlimited chapter.