2025

Texan by Nature (TxN), founded by former First Lady Laura Bush, unites business and conservation to benefit people, prosperity, and natural resources. As a 2025 Conservation Wrangler, RPQRF will receive 12-18-months of program management, strategic planning, marketing messaging, metrics capture and analysis, professional content production, and partnership development – whatever…

With the end of the 2024-2025 quail hunting season in our rearview mirror, the RPQRR is looking forward to getting several new research projects up and running. One such project is to refine how quail populations are censused over time. From a quail hunter’s perspective, hunters are keenly interested in…

Small mammal (i.e. rodents) trapping occurs twice per year (Winter and Spring) on the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch. Small mammals serve as an alternative prey source for mesocarnivore predators. The greater the abundance of small mammals, the more predators tend to focus on them as opposed to quail. Abundant…

December was an eventful month at the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch. Our technicians worked tirelessly to prepare for winter trapping and did an outstanding job during the trapping process. Over two consecutive weeks, our staff and volunteers handled 2,857 birds, of which 1,620 were “unique” individuals.  Most (88%) were…