Burning increased the area occupied by quail food plants, with slightly highest occupancy on the August-burned plots. The August burns also produced a more open type of vegetation. It is believed that August buyrning will result in a greater coverage of quail food plants and produce a type of vegetation open enough at the quail's level to permit easy feeding. However, these late summer burns occur during fruit-maturing season of many legumes and may result in the destruction of much of the quail's winter food. Nesting habits and cover requirements as well as food requirements must be taken into account. Summer fires may destroy young quail as well as some late season nests. These August-burned areas are void of vegetation and are out of production twice as long as the winter burns, as far as quail management is concerned. Continued frequent burning in the summer may also result in the destruction of the pineland habitat. On forested areas of this type that have grown up to a dense and unproductive type of vegetation, a system of summer burning may help get the area back into quail production and then be followed by winter burning for continued quail production and vegetational control. © by the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Abstract reproduced by permission.