The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is offering a quail habitat opportunity to private landowners in 19 counties throughout the state including Baxter, Marion, Fulton, Searcy, Stone and Newton Counties. An informational meeting is scheduled for Tuesday evening from six to eight at the Fred Berry Conservation Education Center on Crooked Creek in Yellville.
The funding for the quail habitat program is courtesy of a $400,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Game and Fish Private Lands Program Supervisor Ted Zawislak says Arkansas is one of a few states to submit proposals to the USDA.
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For those interested in using their private land for a quail habitat, Zawislak says several practices can be followed.
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Zawislak adds there will be criteria on which landowners will be selected for the cost-sharing program, and Game and Fish will assist in developing a wildlife management plan.
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The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has already received questions about how the habitats would be developed. Zawislak says it is not a program for the birds to be raised in pens.
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Dinner will be included with Tuesday’s information meeting. For further details or to send an RSVP, call 870-425-3527, extention 3.
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