• civil war to 1930s the focus was on a resort for invalids
  
• relatively dry inland climate was believed to be good for tuberculosis, as were the pines
  
• but then Robert Koch showed TB was not caused by bad air

Thomasville needed a different attraction and turned to quail hunting

• quail population was declining
• Herbert Stoddard in a study beginning in 1923 began to work out how to manage quail
  
• standard forestry practices contradicted the practices of the locals, who used fire
• Stoddard realized that fire was needed to keep up the quail population