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Flushing quail featured on Arkansas conservation stamp

BY Randy Zellers

ON 08-25-2021

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Aug. 25, 2021

Randy Zellers

Assistant Chief of Communications

The third edition of the Arkansas Quail Conservation Stamp is available for purchase through any AGFC license vendor and at www.agfc.com/licenseThis year’s stamp, available for $9.50, was developed in partnership with Historic Cane Hill, Inc. John P. Lasater IV, an artist from Siloam Springs, created the image of quail flushing from an oak savanna at Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center for this year’s image.

Oak savannas are grasslands with a few scattered trees that provide exceptional habitat for Northern bobwhites, songbirds, monarch butterflies and a host of pollinator species. Without the periodic use of prescribed fire, much of Arkansas’s savanna habitat has grown into older forests with little sunlight on the forest floor for native grasses and shrubs that quail and other species need to thrive. Staff at Fort Chaffee and AGFC implement prescribed fire on the training center on a 3-5 year rotation to maintain this habitat in many portions of the 66,000-acre complex. Prescribed fire not only sets back woody sprouts from trees, but varying the prescribed fire timing creates diverse plant species composition that equates to diverse wildlife populations that use these plants for food and cover.

The Arkansas Quail Conservation Stamp is not required to hunt or fish any game in Arkansas, and was developed under the advice of former commissioner Steve Cook (2011-2018) of Malvern. Revenue from the sale of bobwhite stamps funds habitat restoration projects in priority areas of the state and research efforts to develop strategies to increase Northern bobwhites on Arkansas’s landscape. Sales from the first two editions of the stamp have totaled more than $103,000, with a net profit of $65,500. This money is combined with sales from Arkansas’s voluntary turkey stamp and used as a match with grant money to produce hundreds of thousands of dollars in habitat work across the state. 

Visit www.agfc.com/quail to learn more about Northern bobwhite hunting and management efforts in Arkansas.


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