San Angelo -

3rd Annual Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch Field Day

October 1, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch, located 10 miles west of Roby on US 180

“The central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools that have heretofore destroyed it-axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun”

Fees:
Pre-Registration (before September 24) - $10
Students - $5
At the Door: $20
**Please register at the door after September 27**
Registration includes lunch and Refreshments

8:00 Registration
8:45 Welcome and opening comments - Dale Rollins, Rick Snipes, & Paul Melton
9:00 Weather records - Lloyd LaCoste
        Depart for tour
9:30 STOP 1.
        Deuce Pasture
            ? Quail-friendly Cacti Management - Dale Rollins
            ? Prescribed Burning Efforts - Lloyd LaCoste
            ? Glyphosate pre-treatment and Summer Burns - Dale Rollins
10:15 STOP 2.
         Deuce Pasture
            ? Forb Response to Glyphosate + Summer Burns - Dale Rollins
            ? Quail Response to Supplemental Protein During La Nina Periods - Lloyd LaCoste
            ? Quail Visitation at Feeders - Cathy LaCoste
11:00 STOP 3.
         Meg Pasture
            ? Quail-friendly CRP Management - Barrett Koennecke
            ? Fire + Surmount for Cacti Control - Dale Rollins
            ? Quail Demographics at RPQRR - Seth Claybaker, Barrett Koennecke, & Dale Rollins
11:30 STOP 4.
         Ellie Pasture
            ? Patch-burn Grazing to Increase Habitat Heterogeneity - Kurt Huffman & Dave Barre
            ? Arthropod Sampling - Cathy LaCoste, Lloyd LaCoste, & Becki Perkins 

12:15 STOP 5.
         Pavilion
            ? Lunch
            ? Poster Presentations - Dean Ransom, Susan Cooper, Andrea Montalvo, Lacy Parson, & Stacie Mahan-Villareal
            ? Updates
                 ? Related Research Projects
                 ? Coyote diets
                 ? GIS predator studies
                 ? Roadrunner ecology
                 ? Ragweed seed dynamics
                 ? Horned lizard dynamics
                 ? Scaled Quail population trends in West Texas
                 ? Quail Coalition Inc. - Chip Martin
                 ? Bobwhite Brigade - Faye Price
                 ? QuailMasters - Charlie Hill
                 ? RPQRR Research Partners - Dean Ransom
                 ? Quail Hunting Forecast
            ? Demonstrations
                ? Traps - Barrett Koennecke & Andrea Montalvo
                ? Telemetry equipment - Seth Claybaker & Lloyd LaCoste
                ? GIS/GPS - Kurt Huffman & Dave Barre
2:00 STOP 5.
        Annie Pasture
           ? Assessing Collateral Damage to Desirable Woody Plants - Dave Barre
           ? Quail Response to Predation Threats - Becki Perkins
           ? Forb Response to Seasonal Discing - Lloyd LaCoste
           ? Spreader Dams aka “Quail Oasis” - Dale Rollins
3:00 Return to Headquarters
3:15 Complete Evaluations and Adjourn
3:30 Optional tour (30 minutes)
           ? Food Plots - Lloyd LaCoste

 For more information visit the website:  www.quailresearch.org or contact Rachel Vega (rrvega@ag.tamu.edu; 325-653-4576)

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