With ample rainfall, healthy cover, and an abundance of quail in the summer of 2010, hunters in the Rolling Plains region of West Texas anticipated another bumper crop of their beloved birds the ...

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) surveys shows quail populations are on the rise, just in time for the beginning of hunting season. The quail hunting season began Oct. 28. The data indicates ...

Texas' Rolling Plains, a mosaic of mostly grasslands peppered with mesquite and other modest trees, in no way resembles the scenic, verdant, rocky hills of Greece. And the Rolling Plains' fist-size, ...

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has burned over 1 million acres of the Texas Panhandle, making it the largest wildfire in state history. It’s one of four wildfires currently ...

Quail hunting season kicks off Saturday and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is predicting an uncertain hunt this year due to drought conditions. Texas is home to four quail species: the ...

Quail season opened Saturday in Texas. For the shrinking number of Texans to whom quail and quail hunting are hugely important, this is bittersweet. Neither quail nor quail hunting are what they were ...

I have to admit, I am not bullish on the long-term future for bobwhite quail in Texas, and to be honest the rest of North America. Estimates are that quail numbers across the U.S. have dipped 75 ...

The bad news first: Bobwhite quail hunting season probably won’t be very good across much of Texas. Especially in the Rolling Plains, a region that has historically been one of the top bobwhite quail ...

OYNOR — Hindsight is a wonderful thing. You know, coulda, woulda, shoulda. As Mike Martin, Rusty Mitchum and I walked toward Martin’s German shorthair, Millie, I couldn’t help but wonder what the ...

There are no Texas quail rigs in the Whitney Biennial, but then again New York casts a long shadow of bullshit over American aesthetics, its credentialed scenesters busy strip-mining consumer culture ...

The 2019 “building mode” for Texas’ bobwhite quail is but a memory. Bird numbers are down in four of the six ecoregions Texas Parks and Wildlife Department examines in its annual roadside survey. That ...

The Texas lawyer Dick Cheney sprayed with birdshot during a traumatic 2006 hunting trip recently bagged his first quail since the terrifying rifle mishap 10 years ago — but there has still never been ...