Explain the habitat situation in west Texas? I understand how it would effect places that have been broken up like East Texas but not to the extent we see the quail going away in W Tex. My buddies ranch is 2,500 acres in Bosque. It was smaller years ago and they had plenty of quail as well as everyone else did around there. Land frag cannot explain that. They are very involved in quail rehab and it is not the land. Cattle are rotated every three days. Cedars have been removed. Cactus everywhere. No predators. 2 years ago everyone in W Texas had bumber crops of quail. We pushed 20 covies on 400 acres in Hall/Briscoe counties. My buddy plus 1 limited three days in a row in Kent/Dickens. Then last year there were no birds come opener. Land fragmitation did not occur out there and has actually gotten less as people have joined lands. It is rain related 100% it seems. 2 years ago wew got 8 inches of rain in one night. Same year as the bumber crop. No impact. They didn't drown as people like to think. Just my observations here. At my lease in Montague, no land frag occured and quail almost went away in the three years I was there. We would see 2 covies per 160 acres there in 2005. Now nothing. 4,000 plus acre ranch as well we were on and no land owners around us changed. Long time ranchers.