In the 1920s, Stoddard went to work at the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, a precursor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he studies northern bobwhite quail in the Red Hills region of Georgia and Florida. He wanted to understand the gradual decline of the bird population in the area, and his work resulted in the realization that controlled burning was a necessity for conserving quail. He published his findings in a 1931 book titled The Bobwhite Quail: Its Habitats, Preservation, and Increase. Quail plantation owners learned to adopt the methods of conservation that would extend their enjoyment of hunting on the lands they had acquired, but in later years other environmental changes presented new challenges. | Source: Wikimedia CommonsDownload Original File
