Fall 2009 Quail Call Newsletter

The Fall 2009 Quail Call newsletter has been printed and mailed to our members. The focus of this edition of Quail Call is supplemental feeding research and practice. Articles include:

• A seven-year study of year-round feeding and bobwhite
• Reducing feeding rates – can we save money?
• Bobwhite calling surveys

A PDF of the newsletter is available here.

Tall Timbers Awarded a USFS Grant for the
LANDFIRE Project in the Southeast

The Tall Timbers GIS Lab formalized a five-year agreement with the USFS to address issues with LANDFIRE data in the South East.

LANDFIRE, also known as the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project, is a five-year, multi-partner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The project has four components: the LANDFIRE Prototype, LANDFIRE Rapid Assessment, LANDFIRE National, and Training/Technology Transfer.

For the first phase of the grant, Joe Noble, coordinator of the GIS Lab, addressed non-burnable agriculture issues as well as assisted with model development. Beginning in October, for the second phase of the grant, Noble will study post disturbance succession in the South East.

LANDFIRE data products are designed to facilitate national- and regional-level strategic planning and reporting of wildland fire management activities; and are produced at scales that may be useful for prioritizing and planning hazardous fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration projects.

Please visit www.landfire.gov for project details.