The decline of Northern Bobwhite populations mirrors that of an entire suite of species adapted to grassland ecosystems in the United States. Bobwhite rely on the plant communities and structural characteristics that were once maintained through fire and grazing. However, with the advent of modern land management practices and the discontinuation of prescribed burning, the habitats needed by bobwhite, and many other grassland species, have mostly vanished. To stop the decline of bobwhites will take habitat restoration on a landscape scale: from restoring quail habitats (and the beneficial disturbance cycles that sustain them) to protecting the remaining native habitats existing on private and public lands. The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) Coordinated Implementation Program (CIP) aims to help bobwhite by “focusing [restoration, management, and monitoring] efforts on areas large enough to support sustainable bobwhite populations but small enough for a reasonable chance at success.”