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Western Navarro Bobwhite Recovery Initiative

In 2008, the TBCF was awarded a $40,000.00 Wildlife Diversity Grant from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Deptartment to purchase essential equipment for the Western Navarro Bobwhite Recovery Initiative (WNBRI) to use for native grassland restoration and range enhancement projects. This money has been used to purchase a Truax No-till Seed Drill for planting native grasses, herbicides to prepare sites for planting native grasses, prescribed burning equipment, and trailer for storage and transport of the burning equipment.

To date, the TBCF has purchased the Truax seed drill, Herbicides, and prescribed burning equipment. During the 2009 planting season, the WNBRI used the Truax seed drill to plant approximately 430 of native grass and forb seed.  Herbicide treatments will be applied on several properties during June-July 2009 to prepare sites for planting in 2010.  The prescribed burning equipment and trailer will be ready for the 2010 winter burning season. More information can be found at navarroquail.org.