THE NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLANDS CONSERVATION ACT If you’re a quail, pheasant, elk, or pronghorn hunter—or a farmer or rancher—this is one of the most important bills of your lifetime. https://bit.ly/3PF1m0P via MeatEater #ActForGrasslands

BREAKING NEWS! SEVERAL YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLANDS ACT IS OFFICIALLY INTRODUCED! This morning, in an effort to protect and expand iconic grassland landscapes, Quail Forever & Pheasants Forever and more than two dozen of America's leading conservation groups are touting the introduction of the North American Grasslands Conservation Act by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon — co-sponsored by U.S. Senator Amy Klobucharof Minnesota and Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. Several years in the making, the Act is a significant step for grassland conservation efforts in the 21st century, and would help kickstart the voluntary protection and restoration of grasslands and sagebrush shrub-steppe in North America. Now, we need your voice to make it reality: https://bit.ly/3zbVCVf

Quail Forever has secured two amazing hunts to support our upland habitat conservation mission through an ONLINE FLASH AUCTION – and they could be yours! A nonresident Iowa deer tag has become one of the most sought-after licenses in the country, while a chance to participate in the invitation-only Kansas Governor’s Ringneck classic is truly the opportunity of a lifetime! Bid now through August 2nd at this link: https://bit.ly/birdsbucks22 #uplandhunting #fundraising #quailforever #conservation

QUAIL FOREVER STRIKES PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IN SOUTH CAROLINA Quail Forever is proud to announce a new partnership with the National Park Service at Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The partnership will help fund oak/pine savanna restoration and quail habitat restoration at the park, in addition to bolstering prescribed fire efforts. The military park will become part of a large-scale quail focal area that includes lands managed by South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism. All told both parks cover just over 10,000 acres and both have the same goal to restore the habitat to their Revolutionary War conditions. “The goal of the park is to restore the Revolutionary era landscape,” said Kayla Silva, a Quail Forever coordinating biologist whose primary work is at the park. “The ecosystem was historically a wide open oak savannah, which also makes for great quail habitat. So by recreating what the park looked like during the battle, we’re also helping restore the historic quail population that was present at the time.” “Since we began our partnership with the National Park Service back in March 2018, we’ve been able to join forces on multiple projects and public land opportunities,” said Tim Caughran, Quail Forever’s director of conservation delivery. “The new venture at Kings Mountain is really exciting, and our ability to work together with NPS, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (NRCS) Working Lands for Wildlife – Bobwhite Program will allow us as conservation partners to achieve landscape scale results.” https://bit.ly/3vgbbdc

Monarch butterflies have been in the news recently, but did you know that Quail Forever and Pheasants Forever have planted over one billion milkweed seeds as part of our grassland habitat mission that will help quail, pheasants, pollinators AND monarch butterflies. Yes, billion with a B! https://bit.ly/3ozufzm #MonarchButterfly #CalloftheUplands #ActForGrasslands #conservation #pollinators

LAST CHANCE FOR THIS MEGA-SUPER SUPER ISSUE! Do you want to miss out get the biggest, boldest, baddest (in a good way) upland bird hunting magazine out there? Over 170 pages of sweet, sweet upland goodness can be yours, but only if you join or renew your QF membership at the link below by July 26th, which is tomorrow, folks! This, our 6th annual Upland Bird Hunting Super Issue, has all the birds, and celebrates all the uplands, and is soon going to the printer, so be sure you don't dally. Make sure you get the upland hunting world's biggest and best annual publication! https://quailforever.org/join

Quail Forever is proud to announce the continued partnership of Purina as a national sponsor, featuring Purina Pro Plan as the official dog food brand of The Habitat Organization! No other industry leading pet products and services brand does more for the uplands and dog owners than our partners at Purina, including being an advocate for the organization’s Build a Wildlife Area® program, a signature public lands protection initiative that has acquired more than 20 square miles of habitat in 13 states through this unique, partner-driven matching gift program. https://bit.ly/3oqxHwp #PurinaPROPLAN #purina #sustainability #conservation #publicland #uplandhunting #birddog

QUAIL FOREVER CHAPTER SPOTLIGHT: POWER LINES AND POLLINATORS — A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP IN MISSOURI IS CREATING HABITAT AND CONNECTING STUDENTS WITH CONSERVATION ON UTILITY RIGHT-OF-WAYS The Spring River Chapter of Quail Forever and Liberty Utilities have been partnering on an exciting project to establish pollinator habitat under power lines in southwest Missouri! https://bit.ly/3IUdwQU