Madison resident Bill Sanford is doing something just a little bit different on 202.123 acres of his property. While Sanford actively farms the majority of his property, he has recently put just over ...

This National Virginia Day, learn how Smithsonian scientists are using historic collections and current conservation practices to bring back declining populations of grassland birds Emma Saaty ...

Forty years ago, the distinctive call of the bobwhite quail could be heard throughout Virginia’s grasslands. Today, their calls are fading — silenced by changing farm practices and land development ...

In his teen years, when Joe Graves heard the unique call of quail on his family’s 800-acre farm in rural Virginia, he and his brother Clark would often go out with their dogs and hunt them. But due to ...

WAYNESBORO - Old-timers remember when you could go just about anywhere in rural Virginia and hear the sounds of the bobwhite quail. Today, that's almost a rarity. Last week, at the semiannual meeting ...

The Center for Natural Capital, through its Virginia Wildlife Habitat Cooperative program, is helping landowners connect their properties through corridors of protected grasslands in an effort to ...