“If it rains, we’ll have quail; if it don’t, we won’t.”
That operating paradigm may be true most of the time in west Texas, but not always, as evident in many of the quail forecasts this year. It did (rain), but quail numbers lagged in most areas of the Rolling Plains. In recent issues (i.e., since April) RPQRR has noted low survival following winter storm Uri and that contributed to low carryover of breeding capital.
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