Bobwhites are a great idea; however, they are regulated in the Great State of New York and a license is required to raise them legally. Whether a class A or B license depending on your intentions, this includes a fee, record keeping, and annual reports to DEC. Nothing is as simple as it seems.
Round here Cecil, its just tax money. Your argument has merit in lots of situations though. They have had this problem with farmed salmon in the pacific.
well like all wildlife one reason ticks have spread is the highways and people traveling we have ebola in our country and new strains of flu .... ticks get on a surfcaster walking threw brush gets in his truck and comes to the great lakes to catch salmon how many times at night have you seen wildlife following a road? or the mtn lion that made it fron S dokota to Greenwich CT to be killed on 95 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903591104576470952918489180I think the high ways we travel wild life is taking advantage of it as wellI was in boy scouts about a million years ago and I got a tick on me at 12 pines ...(small lake camping area in central ny) but nothing like todaythen again I remember my dad pouring gas on fire ants and I haven't seen them here now in 50 years at least
good point on DDT ...it's been what nearly 50 years since it's use here in America?...