You guys love to hunt turkeys and I'm happy for you. However, I side with Jon.

Years ago I helped run a quail preserve in North Carolina. We explored all the theories you can imagine. It seems that in different habitats, different factors are more negative than in other areas.

I don't think anything was as universally negative, as fall plowing and failure to leave fencerows.

However, even a blind man can see that we've got more hawks, coyotes, and turkeys than we had years ago. Turkeys eat quail eggs. You can go in an oak woods and see where they've gone on line, literally plowing the ground for food. Quail nest in three-year-old sedge. It is poor protection against predators. And these days it is hard to find.

The one thing Fish and Wildlife has never understood, is that good quail habitat is the best habitat for all Wildlife.