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Spring 2022 | Vol 15 | No 1

As smoke begins to fill the skies of quail country, bobwhites are gearing up to bring next year’s crop of birds into the world. For quail hunters and quail managers alike, it is a time to reflect on the highs and lows of the season, while trying to develop rational and biological reasons for why things went the way they did.
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Tall Timbers supports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed change in status of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposal has garnered a good bit of media coverage, so we wanted to share our thoughts on both the good reasons for the change, as well as the need to keep the woodpecker on the ESA as threatened for the decades needed to achieve recovery.
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The 2020s have brought their share of challenges but, for landowners in the Red Hills, they have also delivered a host of land stewardship funding opportunities. Millions of dollars of financial resources have swept into our region thanks to the hard work of Tall Timbers and its many partners, providing direct assistance to landowners looking to improve and conserve their land.
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The art of prescribed fire is a trade honed through years of apprenticeship, trial, error, and restless nights. Appreciating the way fire behaves when titi is blooming, seeing the peril of a puff of smoke in the late afternoon after firing is complete, and recognizing the increased risk of people getting hurt when the sun goes down, all come from years of experience.
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Please join us on April 7-8 for the 15th Annual Georgia-Florida Turkey Invitational benefiting the Tall Timbers Game Bird Program. Our speaker this year will be Ryan “Cal” Callaghan, Director of Conservation at MeatEater, Inc. and host of Cal’s Week in Review podcast.
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BirdQuest 2022 returns April 8. BirdQuest supports the Stoddard Bird Lab. The goal this year is to secure radio transmitters and a summer internship to assist grad student Destinee Story in her work with the Common Ground-dove.
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Ecosystem services are any ecological product or process that benefits humans. They can range from the provision of food and water, pollination, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, recreation, and aesthetics.
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In January 2022, the National Park Service added the 9,125-acre Livingston Place property in Greenville, Florida, to the National Register of Historic Places, making it one of the largest designated sites in the state. National Register designation recognizes this distinct cultural landscape, along with its architectural significance, while also helping protect and preserve it for the future.
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As Tall Timbers continues to partner with the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program (FSCP), University of Georgia Master’s student Chris Terrazas (advised by Dr. Mike Mengak) has spent the past three months attaching GPS collars to wild pigs captured by Wildlife Services.
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Tall Timbers hosted the first-ever National UAS (Unmanned Aerial System/drones) Ignition Academy, sponsored by the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC), and the National UAS Program February 28-March 4, 2022. The training is designed to instruct UAS operators in aerial ignition operations.
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