Dr. Alan Maxwell remembers as a young boy hunting with his father and being able to find multiple coveys of bobwhites on his family’s 653-acre farm in Mitchell County Georgia. He sometimes reminisces about the open understory habitat of the longleaf pine forests, which once surrounded his childhood home. Dr. Maxwell noticed a decline in the quail population in the 1960’s coinciding with the conversion of the longleaf forests to row crop agriculture.
