What you are saying about lack of attention to small game is even applicable in Arizona. Basically Arizona is big game hunting when it comes to Game and Fish Department paying attention. Now they are discovering we don't have enough big game to give everyone a chance on that front annually and small game is going to have to fill the gap or we will lose the hunt license revenues needed. Hopefully they will begin managing quail, cottontails, and squirrels with something near the effort they put in big game. Currently their only quail program is to pray for rain. Cottontails and squirrels are not managed other than bag limits and seasons. Predator control is the elephant in the room. We have more raptors, rattlesnakes and coyotes than any small game population can endure. But the raptors are virtually sacred! Blue Grouse exist but Game and Fish admits they don't know a blessed thing about them. Same with Band Tailed Pigeon. The saving grace here for the youngsters is the Mourning Dove and White Wing Dove populations.