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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 2907156" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p><em>IMO,</em> the single biggest reason is <em>FESCUE</em>.</p><p>Some would say this falls under "habitat loss", but it's also a major food loss since the fescue has <u>displaced</u> so many once native plants that quail had evolved to thrive both living among and feeding upon. Not only do quail have little to eat with the invasion of fescue, but it's not good cover for them either.</p><p></p><p>Now add everything else previously mentioned to <em>FESCUE</em>, and it all adds up to very few quail compared to the pre-fescue days.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps no other plant has done so much harm to Tennessee wildlife as fescue.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd speculate the dominant grass in that otherwise good habitat is now fescue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 2907156, member: 1409"] [i]IMO,[/i] the single biggest reason is [i]FESCUE[/i]. Some would say this falls under "habitat loss", but it's also a major food loss since the fescue has [u]displaced[/u] so many once native plants that quail had evolved to thrive both living among and feeding upon. Not only do quail have little to eat with the invasion of fescue, but it's not good cover for them either. Now add everything else previously mentioned to [i]FESCUE[/i], and it all adds up to very few quail compared to the pre-fescue days. Perhaps no other plant has done so much harm to Tennessee wildlife as fescue. I'd speculate the dominant grass in that otherwise good habitat is now fescue. [/QUOTE]
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