This project is funded by the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources with logistical support by the Bean Life Science Museum’s Lytle Ranch Preserve. Results are expected to provide management agencies with important information related to the conservation of Gambel’s quail and the impact of wildlife water developments. This work will be done in conjunction with broad-based sampling of water resource use across Utah. Our goal over the next few years will be to assess the effects of wildlife water developments on Gambel’s quail and to determine the influence of recent severe fires on habitat use and selection. From a conservation perspective Gambel’s Quail is currently. In Mexico they are found in the Sonoran Desert and along the Pacific Slope in the States of Sonora and Sinaloa at elevations below 1,525 m (5,000 feet). There are at least fifteen of these structures in and around the Lytle Ranch Preserve that, at least in part, are designed to benefit quail. Gambel’s Quail, Callipepla gambelii, is a member of the Odontophoridae Family of New World Quails.
Water developments capture rain or snowmelt, store it, and provide access to water for wildlife during dry periods of the year.
Construction of wildlife water developments specifically for quail began as early as the 1940’s and has continued to the present. In addition, Gambel’s quail are a focal species in the current and ongoing controversy surrounding wildlife water developments. These birds are a native species of some concern in Utah given limited range and recent severe changes to their habitat due to increased fire frequency. Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii) occur in the American southwest including some parts of southern Utah.
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