Upland Game Bird Management Account Projects

This study will include field operations, data collection, and analytical approaches aimed at answering basic questions regarding upland game bird populations including pheasants and turkeys.

The proposed project would renovate a guzzler on Mt. Laguna by repairing/installing a new 500 gallon system by Rainmaker Wildlife Water Guzzlers and Escape Ramps, providing a source of water during prolonged drought, which will in turn benefit upland game birds and upland game bird hunters.

Assessment of Mountain Quail abundance and critical habitat is hindered by the lack of practical and efficient methods for counting birds and measuring dense, frequently impenetrable, chaparral vegetation. The Game Bird Research Group proposes to quantify the temporal patterns of Mountain Quail vocalizations that underpin abundance estimates derived from call counts.

In this project, Game Bird Research Group proposes to attain accurate coordinate locations for a sample of territorial male Sooty Grouse throughout Mendocino, Glenn, Lake, and Sonoma counties and use them to create a habitat suitability model that predicts the locations of additional breeding sites throughout the region.

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.