They are four day programs for high school students ages 13-17. Participants will be involved in a hands-on learning experience designed to make them quail experts while teaching them communication and leadership skills. Bobwhite Brigade Wildlife Camp sponsors include the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Quail Unlimited, local Soil and Water Conservation Districts, private industry and landowners. Trees are available for windbreaks and screens Tree seedlings can be ordered from the Middle Clear Fork Soil and Water Conservation District for use as homesite and field windbreaks and screen plantings. Several individual varieties are available including Russian olive, desert willow, red oak, lacebark elm, green ash and catalpa.
Some assorted packages designed to promote wildlife are also available.
Orders are due by Feb. 18. February 9 is the date the average American has earned enough money to pay for their food supply for all of 1999. Americans work about 40 days to pay for and entire year's supply of food. To pay for a year's worth of taxes, Americans will have to work until May 10. This is more than three additional months.