From News-Leader.com:
CATAWBA — For 60 years, Wysor Smith Jr. has listened for the mating call of the bobwhite quail, as a hunter and now as a conservationist. But over the decades since the 1970s, as farms have wooded over or sprouted crops of houses and businesses, the “bob-WHITE” call has faded and in places disappeared. Through state and federal programs, however, Smith and his family are restoring quail-friendly grasslands on their 550-acre Craig County farm. He only wishes he’d done it sooner. Read more HERE.
