7.The U.S. Forest Service has
important roles on both public and private lands. Its State and Private
Forestry division administers the Forest Stewardship Program and the
Stewardship Incentives Program, both of which are ideally suited to encourage
the management of private, non-industrial forests for quail.Both programs are severely
under-funded.The national forest
management plans likewise could contribute by placing priority on providing
multi-purpose early-successional habitats for bobwhites, loggerhead shrikes,
red-cockaded woodpeckers, and numerous other declining species.
8.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program has incentive money and technical
staff on the ground to help private landowners provide wildlife
habitats.The new Landowner Incentive
Program and other available grant monies, if considerate of bobwhite habitat
needs, could support bobwhite habitat restoration projects.
9.Numerous private and public foundations
are receptive to project proposals to restore habitats and ecosystems for the
mutual benefit of both bobwhites and declining songbirds.