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2. Potential Benefits:
4. Remove hawk-owl perches
5. Place crowing (5-6 foot) posts at corners of all 1/3 acre triangles. Number these posts.
6. Develop triangular hedge rows throughout the area. (There are many complex cover relations.)
7. Vary the hedge vegetation in soft mast producing shrubs: privet, viburnum, crataegus, rose, honeysuckle, elderberry, blackberry, raspberry.
8. Make some hedges of conifers. Use low growing types: mugo pine; Fitzer juniper or be sure to prune to keep dense low form for winter cover.
9. Use a portable electric fence. Graze the interior triangles on a 4-6 year rotation.
10. Work for high insect populations in spring.
11. Provide water sources, 1/acre, for special periods.
12. Provide grit, one spot per 2/3 acre.
13. Provide superior dusting areas, one spot per 2/3 acre.
14. Mow pathways or trails for hunters or observers throughout the area.
15. Use crowing posts (each having been numbered) to record birds seen and covey density.
16. Develop pyramidal brush piles in the "hedgerows."
17. Place old fence and brush in pyramidal form in "waste areas."
18. Develop one "snow shelter" (any type) per 1/3 acre (e.g., at the corners of all triangles).
19. Plant each triangular "quail field" into a different crop and rotate them: millet, corn, ladino clover, Korean lespedeza, fallow, low-cost grain (wheat, oats, barley, etc.)
20. Fertilize and lime inside each field in strips to avoid an even pattern to increase insects.
21. Have one of every 6 triangles in high grass nest cover. Mow pathways in these areas in spring.
22. Keep records of sightings, especially cumulative maximum.
23. Develop and use the computer program imp and other survey programs.
24. Create a permanent census route for trend studies (e.g., modified King method).
25. See if maximum of 3.1 birds/acre can be surpassed.
26. Weigh all recovered birds; record weights and watch trends. Try to improve weights.
27. Observe sex ratios; calculate chi-square to detect when significant differences occur.
28. Remove key quail predators, especially feral cats and crows.
29. Encourage mammal trapping.
30. Develop wire-covered standing-grain areas.
31. Develop emergency feeding "roofed" areas near roads (easy access by jeep, etc.) for severe-winter supplementary feeding.
32. Develop horse trails.
33. Develop fire breaks.
34. Use cool-soil burns in small select areas if hedge rows are not to be used. Rotate burns every 4-6 years.
35. Avoid pesticide use.
36. Fertilize and lime fruit trees (e.g., cherry) in hedgerows.
37. Develop paths for bird watchers.
38. Develop a guide service.
39. Develop a kennel.
40. Develop a stable; use tethered horses for grazing regulation of vegetation in triangles.
41. Reduce groundhogs (that build dens for predators).
42. Build a blind for photographers.
43. Develop a quail-related organization with fees, newsletter, etc.
44. Improve soil conditions of all types; eliminate erosion; add organic matter to `scalds'. Areas that "will not produce anything" will not produce many quail; such areas increase the divisor in "Quail/Area." Map and subtract their area.
45. Develop an "activity" with a bread-and-breakfast, a game preserve, or a motel-hotel.
46. Take quail samples to a veterinarian or lab to get a base-line condition on health and disease. Collect liver, brain, and fat samples annually as baseline in the event of radical change in populations.
47. Put snow fence in sparse hedge rows for wind protection.
48. Conduct spring call-count routes to establish trends and population change/$ invested.
49. Invite press coverage.
Additional notes on quail are available.
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