Originally Posted by CNC
Just out of curiosity......Do the quail plantations care if you burn during quail nesting season??


Yes they do. They want to burn before most quail are on the nest....just like we do with turkeys


Originally Posted by CNC
If we were to look at our probabilities for natural ignition from lightening…..When would likely have the highest probabilities of the year??......Late summer early fall, right???.....Our driest months with the highest amount of lightening strikes. When do quail nest…..May-Sept ......Turkeys March-May……..Is it just a coincidence that these birds are nesting outside of the most likely time for natural fire??


Late summer early fall, NO. Driest months with low incidence of lightning coupled with high humidity and green fuels. High incidence of lightning strikes and dry fuels is April - May.

Originally Posted by CNC
Earlier you said that you couldn’t burn during that time because it would take away all of the hunting cover but yet you just said that at most there is 40% burned….and plenty of cover left as you described……So isn’t there still enough to hunt then too??.....I don’t see why it wouldn’t work except for deer hunter whining a little at first…..I think what folks would find though would be that a late summer/early fall burn would be a deer magnet as the little plant shoots started popping back out.


Weak argument coming from lack of knowledge of the subject. If you take, say a bird per acre quail population in fall and burn 50% of their cover you double the number of birds per acre in the remaining habitat - great right, 2 birds per acre? Problem is you just exposed an unnaturally high prey population to a predator population that is not only at it's highest due to lots of young of the years animals running around but also the major influx of northern migrant hawks and owls that are searching for prey items that may be over exposed to predation by, say, a 50% reduction in their protective cover. You would suffer devastating losses I would suspect. There are ways to reduce cover to increase findability of birds but burning 50% of their winter cover in blocks is NOT one of them.

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