Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

The objective of this effort is to systematically visit developed water sites throughout the southern Regions of the state which may be man-made or natural springs or seeps, to ensure that they are functioning in an optimum fashion.

This project will restore a high-priority 34 acres floodplain on the Sul Norte Unit of the Sacramento River NWR by converting it from yellow star-thistle, black mustard, milk thistle, and annual rip-gut grasses to perennial grasses to benefit upland game bird species and other associated wildlife.

This project will manage weeds and improve approximately 149 acres of upland nesting and foraging habitat for pheasants and other upland wildlife species in Fields 78-80, to be planted to perennial grasses.

In this project, Santa Clarita Chapter of Valley Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation has recently undertaken a volunteer project to locate and assess all of the existing DFW guzzlers and has already located over 20 of the DFW guzzler units in the Los Angeles District, all of which are in need of repair.

This project will establish a sixty-six-acre demonstration site to test the viability of certain plant species as well as the wildlife response over a three-year period. Plantings include mixes of forbs, with some limited grasses in various combinations to simulate the various season scenarios which might be experienced under water transfer or idling programs.

We propose to develop a monitoring strategy for quail and dove species residing in the Sonoran, Colorado, and Mohave Deserts, the Great Basin and other arid highland ecosystems where large scale habitat monitoring programs (AIM and NRI) are operational.

This project will develop and implement a comprehensive habitat enhancement plan for roughly 50 acres including water management and establishment of perennial grasses to improve nesting, foraging, and over wintering habitat for pheasant, turkey, dove, and quail populations.

This project consists of planting approximately 80 acres of upland food plots on public lands at the CDFW Camp Cady Wildlife Area. This project will help maintain and increase upland wildlife communities at Camp Cady by providing essential food for upland game species.

This project consists of installing a solar well to access artesian water within 9-10 feet of surface elevation at Camp Cady Wildlife Area. The solar well will be used to establish a small game guzzler and to establish riparian and upland habitats using drip irrigation which will provide nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat as much as a mile away from the well site.

This project will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of available information on pheasants and factors possibly related to population dynamics, and where data are adequate, will evaluate the relationship between pheasant populations and possible limiting factors.