This updated article is based on content originally published in the Tall Timbers Bobwhite Quail Management Handbook Managing the overstory on a property can be the most important decision made by a landowner, as it affects not only habitat suitable for bobwhite quail...
This updated article is based on content originally published in the Tall Timbers Bobwhite Quail Management Handbook The history of agriculture has had a profound effect on bobwhite populations over much of their range. As the forests of the east were cleared to make...
The drought of 2026 had an impact on Red-cockaded Woodpeckers in the Red Hills. It’s peak came when the federally threatened birds were nesting, a critical time where doting parents and family members incubate eggs and feed the young.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act (WEPA), a bipartisan bill to encourage the use of prescribed fire by reducing regulatory hurdles associated with recent changes to the Clean Air Act.
Above: Nonnative, invasive Lespedeza species, bicolor lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor), left, and sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata). The genus Lespedeza contains many native plant species distributed throughout the Southeastern U.S. These legumes all have trifoliate...
A pilot project to develop private-market solutions in the Southeast for prescribed fire liability insurance is now expanding to several western states. Those efforts have continued to evolve, demonstrating that innovative partnerships can help expand access to...
After a decade of hard work, Spring Mill boasts an impressive population and serves as a shining example of how intensive habitat management can successfully restore the iconic gamebird.
The Tall Timbers Biological Monitoring Program is resurveying gopher tortoise populations in the Red Hills, revisiting properties where a similar survey was done in 2015. Thanks to a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, biologists will return in early...
About five years ago, managers in the Red Hills and Albany region began asking questions about the local mourning dove population and an apparent decline in hunt success.
There are some considerations to keep in mind as to how a field of sunflowers or millet can be manipulated to legally attract doves.
Research at Tall Timbers has shown disking between October and January produces a higher percent cover of important bobwhite foods.
Tall Timbers’ Stoddard Bird Lab is launching a study of the Bachman’s sparrow in the National Forests of East Texas, the lab’s first foray into studying fire-dependent species outside of Florida and Georgia.
The M-CORES program, which includes the proposed Suncoast Connector Toll Road in Jefferson County, passed through the Florida Legislature at breakneck speed with little review or analysis. Tall Timbers has a number of concerns given the potential for significant and wide spread impacts. These include fragmenting public and private conservation lands, robbing business from Main Street Monticello, impacting our rivers and other water resources, and making prescribed fire more difficult and costly.
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Tall Timbers hosts the premier fire technology transfer organization—the Southern Fire Exchange. This JFSP funded effort helps connect research to management through webinars, workshops, and support of the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium.
Staff and researchers support Federal fire training by serving as a cadre for NWCG training courses, ranging from basic wildland fire to advanced fire effects.
