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By Don P. Brown, Information and Education Specialist
There’s Quail in
Them Thar Hills!
DON P. BROWN/ODWC
Timberland Research Hunt Yields
Clues on Bobwhite Behavior
By Don P. Brown, Information and Education Specialist
t’s commonly thought that hunting for quail in
heavily forested southeastern Oklahoma is pretty
much a great way to waste time. But for the past
Iseveral years, a dedicated group of quail hunting
devotees has wasted no time getting after the elusive
® birds that are found amid the towering pines of the
Ouachita Mountains.
For the past four years in January, a research/donor
partnership between the Oklahoma Department of
Wildlife Conservation and Oklahoma Quail Forever (QF)
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