Welcome to the Upland Newsroom, we hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! Some seasons have come to a close, while others are still ongoing. To wrap up 2024, please send us some of your favorite photos from the field by dropping them in the comments or messaging us on social. We will choose some to be shared in a recap of an incredible year! Other topics include: Late season upland opportunities. Our 2024 Impact Report is available now, highlighting all the incredible milestones in conservation our members, chapters, and supporters have helped achieve over this past year. You can find the latest Impact Report a pheasantsforever.org/impact Passes are available for the greatest upland event of the year, National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic, Happening March 7th – 9th in Kansas City. You can also get passes for other events that weekend, including the 2nd annual Concert for Conservation, the Women on the Wing Brunch, and our National Banquet. We hope to see you all there! Link: pheasantfest.org
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Don't miss out on the biggest concert of the year, the 2025 Concert for Conservation featuring Muscadine Bloodline, along with Chester Floyd! Passes are available now at the link below! https://www.pheasantsforever.org/Pheasant-Fest/Muscadine-Bloodline.aspx Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, in partnership with Pepper Entertainment, are proud to announce the second annual Concert for Conservation, featuring Muscadine Bloodline at the Uptown Theater on Thursday, March 6th in Kansas City, MO. Kicking off our weekend festivities ahead of National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic, all concert proceeds will benefit PF and QF’s upland conservation mission. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's second annual Concert for Conservation is sponsored by onX Hunt , Purina Pro Plan, Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co., Pepper Entertainment, and Mammoth Muscadine Bloodline
USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service Working Lands for Wildlife’s (WLFW) ongoing mission is to restore habitat for wildlife while benefitting landowners. As part of the WLFW Northern Bobwhite, Grasslands & Savannas framework, it is important to evaluate how management practices are working. To accomplish this, Quail Forever has partnered with the University of Georgia to establish a range-wide outcomes assessment protocol. Outcomes assessments are conducted throughout the year in threefold: spring point counts, summer vegetation surveys and fall covey counts. While all these surveys are critically important, fall covey counts stand out as one of the more complex yet valuable surveys. Fall covey counts refer to the process of listening and counting bobwhite covey calls from mid-October through the first week of December, according to Brittany Welch, Quail Forever (QF) bobwhite and grassland birds outcomes assessment coordinator. To learn more about the importance of Fall Covey Counts, Read "HOW FALL COVEY COUNTS TRACK THE IMPACT OF HABITAT RESTORATION" by WLFW Regional Communication Specialist Rachel Holt, at the link below. https://quailforever.org/BlogLanding/Blogs/Quail-Forever/How-fall-covey-counts-track-the-impact-of-habitat-restoration.aspx
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On The Wing Podcast Ep. 298: Introducing a Puppy to Birds and Gunfire, is live. Listen now at the link below or wherever you get your podcast. https://bit.ly/41Rrezx Host Bob St.Pierre has a new 5-month old German shorthaired pointer puppy named “Winter” that has just completed a two-week training session introducing her to birds and gunfire at Dokken’s Oak Ridge Kennels. That training was completed by the kennel’s lead pro trainer, Mike Wieben, who talks about the process of first introducing a puppy to birds, which is followed by a slow and methodical introduction to gunfire. Episode Highlights: - Wieben talks about the variety of ways dog owners inadvertently create gunshy puppies through fireworks, banging pots & pans, or showing up at the trap range with a dog in a crate. - Little Winter gets a good report card for passing bird & gun introduction, but Wieben coaches St.Pierre on some homework on retrieving and reversing the “sit” command. - Thanks to SportDOG Brand and Purina Pro Plan for sponsoring this episode of On the Wing Podcast focused on bird dog training.
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As we recap 2024 with our 2024 Impact Report, we also look ahead to 2025. Today only, your year-end gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000. What we raise by midnight tonight will kick off 2025’s habitat mission for pheasants, quail, and all manner of upland wildlife! You’re the reason we were able to deliver 2.42 million acres of habitat improvements across the pheasant, quail, and prairie grouse ranges this year. Here’s your chance to maximize your impact on the uplands. Don’t miss it. Donate today at the link in our bio. Permanent Protection Stat: Together, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapters, partners, donors and team members completed 46 fee-title land acquisition projects in 2024 encompassing nearly 15 square miles of upland habitat. That accomplishment raises the bar of the organization’s permanently protected lands to 238,860 acres since 1982. Each property is conveyed to state or federal natural resource agencies or managed in perpetuity by PF & QF as a Habitat Management Area. Building Forever Stat: Acres. Access. Action. Since its creation in 1982, PF & QF has dedicated more than $1 billion to 580,000 habitat projects benefiting 28.8 million acres. That sounds like a lot. It is. But the pressures on our precious uplands are real and ever-growing. Our work, your work, our shared work, is never done. Together we build the future – a forever filled with wild places where pheasants, quail and other upland wildlife can thrive. Will you maximize your 2024 impact by donating? **On Tuesday, December 31 we will have a One Day Match, year-end gifts will be matched up to $10,000. #quailforever
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Thanks to you it was another record year for upland conservation! The Habitat Organization delivered 2.4 million acres of habitat improvements across the pheasant, quail, and prairie grouse ranges. As the year comes to a close, now is the time to maximize your 2024 impact on the uplands with a year-end gift. If you have already made your year-end gift this giving season, thank you! See the full 2024 Impact Report and find ways to maximize your 2024 impact at the link in our bio. Heritage stat: Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s conservation education team is dedicated to sharing outdoor lifestyles and an appreciation for wildlife, while inspiring audiences of all ages and skill levels. We work to inspire folks to become the next generation of hunter-conservationists. In 2024, those efforts resulted in 1,687 educational events, helping nearly 63,000 new and reactivated conservationists, hunters and adventurists experience the outdoor lifestyle. Advocacy stat: In 2024, The Habitat Organization made noteworthy investments in advocacy and built landmark successes like these: * Inclusion of PF & QF policy priorities in the U.S. House draft and U.S. Senate framework versions of the next 5-year Farm Bill, to improve upland wildlife habitat, CRP, working lands, and hunting access. *Securing more than $900 million for habitat conservation and conservation technical assistance for landowners in 2025. *Working with partners to pass the EXPLORE (Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences) Act through the U.S. House, and to pass the America’s Conservation Enhancement Reauthorization Act through the U.S. Senate. Efforts continue to get both bills across the finish line. #quailforever #quail #wildlifeconservation
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Our 2024 Impact Report highlights the accomplishments that you made possible. We hope that you’ll see the difference your support makes firsthand, and you’ll consider maximizing your 2024 impact with a year-end gift. If you have already made your year-end gift this giving season, thank you! See the full 2024 Impact Report and the difference you made for the uplands this year the link below. Habitat: In 2024, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever – and you – delivered 2.42 million acres of habitat improvements across the pheasant, quail and prairie grouse ranges PF & QF were successful in our efforts to secure multiple Regional Conservation Partnership Program awards from the USDA this year totaling $75 million to improve 280,000 acres in support of wildlife habitat and other mission objectives in South Dakota, Arizona, and Montana. Chapters: This network of 754 chapters spread across North America determines how their locally raised funds are spent to support the organization’s top priorities. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever is the only national conservation organization that operates through this grassroots structure. This year, more than 1,000 Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever volunteers spearheaded 97 Hands-On Habitat projects during a dedicated month of on-the-ground volunteerism that improves our upland landscapes across the country. Chapters host these events each spring to get local communities involved in habitat improvement projects. quailforever.org/impact24
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We wish you Merry Christmas from the uplands! As part of the upland conservation community, you have given many gifts to the “Habitat Organization,”, and the gift that matters to us most is you. From all of us at Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever, and on behalf of the uplands, a heartfelt Merry Christmas! Thank you for your commitment and your support. The uplands are a better place, and have a brighter future, because of you. We humbly ask you to consider a gift to the uplands during the year-end giving season.. Learn more below on our various ways to give. Merry Christmas! Quailforever.org/waystogive
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