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Leschper: Bobwhite Brigades provide youth promotion opportunity
Posted: February 5, 2012 - 12:47am

Will Leschper

The fate of Texas’ wildlife, fisheries and other natural resources is in our hands.

Thankfully there is a program aimed at helping us pass on the stewardship role to future generations that serves as a blueprint for success.

Dr. Dale Rollins, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service wildlife specialist, 20 years ago developed the idea for what today has become known as the Texas Brigades.

“One day, when I was traveling from San Angelo, I had just talked to a Lions Club at lunch and I had to go to Childress to talk to some 4-H leaders, and somewhere between Aspermont and Guthrie I had a (bob)white-line epiphany about why couldn’t we get high school youth to give some of these awareness level conservation programs. And literally, the name Bobwhite Brigade came to me,” Rollins said at a previous Brigade camp. “Armed with that, I went back to San Angelo and called a group of friends and professionals and I said ‘hey let’s sit down and talk about this,’ and we had the first camp the next year. I read somewhere that a hunch is creativity trying to tell you something, so I just followed my hunches.”

From the first Rolling Plains Bobwhite Brigade seed that was planted that day in West Texas has sprouted an abundance of fantastic learning opportunities with wildlife at the epicenter.

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