Recent Articles & News
Shaping management through quail population tracking
Finding out how many quail coveys you have throughout the hunting season can help shape management practices.
Rotating hunt courses reduces pressure on birds
Rotating through hunt courses is a sure way to keep covey rises fresh and hunters happy.
The right crops and field management can influence quality brood habitat
Understanding the extent to which various agricultural crops contribute to arthropod abundance could be important when combined with quail management.
Are hurricanes a growing threat to longleaf and other rare species?
Hurricanes serve as a unique player in the long-term health of forests and endangered species but is their growing intensity a threat?
The Stoddard Bird Lab has gone batty with research
There are 11 bat species in the Florida Panhandle. Tall Timbers’ Stoddard Bird Lab has deployed acoustic devices able to hear them but how many did we find?
New Livingston exhibit set to open this fall
Tall Timbers is unveiling a new interactive historical exhibit at our Livingston Place property this fall. The exhibit is located in a small room just off the foyer of the restored 1938 main house. It features museum-style interpretive materials that tell the stories...
Quail Country CCAA looks to improve habitat for at-risk species
Over the last 11 years, Tall Timbers has worked to develop and implement the first-of-its-kind, multi-state plan that enhances habitat for at-risk species. The “Quail Country Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances,” gives private landowners reassurance that...
More than 4,800 acres of Leon County’s Cherokee property put into conservation
More than 4,800 acres of the Cherokee property in the Red Hills region will be permanently protected and provide ecological benefits to Florida’s capital city and beyond after Florida Forever funds easement.
Dwayne Elmore joining Tall Timbers to head Game Bird Program
Tall Timbers is proud to announce that Dwayne Elmore PhD., will be joining our team in September as our new Game Bird Program director. The size and breadth of our Game Bird Program will benefit from the leadership skills Dwayne has honed over the past 17 years at...
Jones Tenant Farm among stops for national historical program
By Anne McCudden, Executive Director of the Thomasville History Center Tall Timbers was honored to host over 60 K-12 educators from across the country during the first few weeks of July. The educators were here as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant...
Native snakes susceptible to northern spread of invasive lung parasites
By Cat Wigen, Biological Monitoring intern As invasive Burmese pythons make their way through Florida’s ecosystems, they carry a weapon that threatens our native snake species across North America. In these pythons' lungs are pentastomes (Raillietiella orientalis)...
Tune in: These prescribed fire-centric podcasts are worth a listen
From quail and prescribed fire to land conservation and long-term research, Tall Timbers staffers have a lot to say. Many have appeared on podcasts to relay their expertise in highly-specialized fields, but knowing where to find those episodes can be tough in the sea...





















