Recent Articles & News
Improved air quality rule set for Albany 2026 burn season
Tall Timbers continues to provide input to Georgia forestry officials as they tweak prescribed fire permitting regulations to meet the needs of Albany area land managers and to work within new federal air quality standards that have the potential to restrict prescribed burning.
Feeding through drought: With seed production low, supplemental practices can help
A longstanding drought throughout the Southeast has impacted the seed production of several key bobwhite forage plants, an effect that may increase the importance of supplemental feeding during the winter. However, providing the full suite of habitat requirements for...
Bobwhite management in Central Florida creating ideal butterfly prairie habitat
By Dave McElveen, Tall Timbers Research Associate. Photo by Mary Jane (M.J.) Krotzer. Tall Timbers’ Central Florida Rangeland Quail Program might be best known for its intensive bobwhite management practices. But biologists and volunteers have also discovered the...
Wild quail hunting safety video
If you are a landowner looking for a simple hunting safety orientation for your guests, or if you have been invited to participate in a southern quail hunt, this video is available to meet your needs. In under eight minutes, we cover the safety basics and common...
Tall Timbers Prescribed Burn Planner a one-stop shop
The burn planner can help fire practitioners set their ideal conditions for specified burn units and receive regular notifications whether their fire prescription is suitable.
2025 Tall Timbers Regional Hatch Report
At Tall Timbers, we documented the highest nest production in the last fifteen years and above average brood production. The outstanding reproduction was partly due to cooperative
weather resulting in ample cover.
Understanding and minimizing unrecovered harvest in bobwhite
Part of bobwhite management is harvest management. Making a complete accounting of all harvested birds, whether they make it into the game bag or not, is important. Tall Timbers recommends a conservative harvest rate.
DNA, you say? Novel approaches to understanding bobwhite chick ecology
By Caitlin Jackson, Brian Shamblin, Dwayne Elmore, and James Martin The use of DNA and related genetic analyses has been around for several decades to uncover crimes and human lineage – think CSI or Ancestry.com. But using these tools for understanding bobwhite chick...
South Carolina wild quail restoration gains momentum thanks to donors and dedicated biologist
It takes dedicated effort to restore wild bobwhite to huntable numbers, and people around Camden, South Carolina, are all in. Regional partners hosted a successful fundraising event in early 2025, and thanks to their generosity, Tall Timbers was able to hire a...
Tall Timbers completes 15th Wade Tract tree census
Over 46 years, the goal of the project was to remeasure all of the trees, and tally new recruits, at three year intervals indefinitely into the future.
Orange tree tops in the forest a sign of stress
Trees in North Florida and South Georgia are suffering from stress related to recent hurricanes, beetles and drought, but the issue may be temporary.
A quick guide to legally hunting doves
There are some considerations to keep in mind as to how a field of sunflowers or millet can be manipulated to legally attract doves.





















