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I once loved quail hunting on our farm and others in eastern NC in the 1980s and 90s.

Grandad let his ditch-banks and hedgerows grow and wouldn’t chop till spring.

It made for prime quail territory and let me tell ya it wasn’t nothing to see coveys three four times a day.

However, today, that type of environment doesn’t exist. Farmers cut their ditches and weeds like their front yard; no place for quail to hide or nest from predators.

I grew up hunting for the price of shells I used or didn’t that day. I’m not paying to hunt a preserve either.

This has made the eastern NC bobwhite nearly extinct.

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