IN THIS ISSUE...
FEATURE
- Beadel Guns Return to Tall Timbers
- Job Board Connects Job-seekers with Job Opportunities
- Fall Field Day Returned to Nilo
RESEARCH & LAND MANAGEMENT
- Quail Hatch Report in Anticipation of Quail Season
- New Research Plots at Tall Timbers Attract Collaboration
- Tall Timbers Committed to Wildland Fire Management Education
- Locating the Holy (G)Rail of Birds
- Frequency of Southeast Prescribed Burns Mapped
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Fall/Winter 2021 | Vol 14 | No 3
As the 2021 breeding season came to an end, the anticipation of quail season was beginning to build. This summer the Tall Timbers’ Game Bird Program monitored breeding season demographics from a combined 1,152 radio-tagged birds from the Albany, Red Hills, and Central Florida regions.
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Prescribed fire is an important tool across ecosystems to reduce wildfire hazard, maintain fire-prone ecosystems, manage threatened and endangered species, and improve wildlife habitat. Increasing the pace and scale of prescribed burns for fuels management is a major priority to reduce wildfire intensity that endanger communities and disturb habitats. The purpose of the Southeastern Burn Geodatabase Project is to map and analyze the frequency of prescribed burns throughout the Southeast.
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Many of our planet’s diverse habitats and species have co-evolved with fire over millennia, with humans picking up the torch thousands of years ago to begin living with fire. While you may often see news stories that focus on out-of-control wildfires threatening homes and forests, there are many positive fire stories to be found here at Tall Timbers.
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Tall Timbers will host the Red Hills Spring Dinner at Livingston Place in Greenville, Florida, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. This fundraising event will celebrate the grand reopening of the historic manor house after a four-year, award-winning restoration project.
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As the tide rose, the salt flats became stickier to walk through, increasing the effort required for each step. The physical exertion was antithetical to the view before me—an expansive marsh with gradients of green grasses and sedges winding through the salt pannes, bursting with songs of Seaside Sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds. Wading birds and shorebirds foraged in mixed flocks where water was beginning to pool. After taking a moment to drink some water and enjoy the scene before me, I trudged on—only about 250 meters until I got to the truck. That’s when I heard it.
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Henry Beadel’s diaries from the 1930s and ‘40s note that frequent guests for dove hunting on Tall Timbers were Tallahassee businessman, Theo Proctor and his young son, Theo, Jr. Theo Proctor, Jr. loved to reminisce about visits to Tall Timbers, and how he entertained himself when his father and Henry Beadel were enjoying their “after hunt” discussions and libations. When Beadel died in 1963, he willed two of his favorite guns to the Proctor father and son:
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This fall Tall Timbers launched a new job board to help job-seekers connect with the variety of unique job opportunities generated by wild quail hunting properties.
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Throughout the years, we have often been asked for guidance regarding the effects of season of fire on various aspects of upland pine communities, including woody plant re-sprouting, value for wildlife habitat, flowering of native plant species, effects on pine tree growth and survival, and ease of burning, to name a few.
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Tall Timbers’ Fall Field was back at Nilo Plantation, near Albany, Georgia, where the first field day was held. Interest was high as over 300 attended the event on Friday, Oct. 29.
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The 24th Annual Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction was held Thursday evening, October 14, 2021 at Tall Timbers’ headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida. The event honored long-time Tall Timbers’ Trustee Tom Rankin. It was a sell-out event, with over 400 in attendance.
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Kevin’s 5th Annual Southern Game Fair celebrates Thomasville’s authentic historical sporting lifestyle by bringing families and community together to promote the preservation of longleaf pine forests and bobwhite quail. It was held November 11 and 12 at historic Greenwood Plantation near Thomasville, Georgia.
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