Craig County man’s covert operation helping to restore quail
Wysor Smith holds a quail on his 550-acre farm in Craig County. He is participating in a multi-agency program that encourages restoring native grasslands for quail, songbird, wild turkey and deer habitat throughout much of the eastern U.S. | Kyle Green, The Roanoke Times
For 60 years, Wysor Smith Jr. has listened for the mating call of the bobwhite quail, as a hunter and now as a conservationist.
But over the decades since the 1970s, as farms have wooded over or sprouted crops of houses and businesses, the “bob-WHITE” call has faded and in places disappeared.
Through state and federal programs, however, Smith and his family are restoring quail-friendly native grasslands on their 550-acre Craig County farm. He only wishes he’d done it sooner.
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