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Nebraska Pheasants Forever and the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission to host Nebraska’s Largest Wildlife Meeting

Pheasants Forever Nebraska Game and ParksKearney, Neb. – January 7 – The 63 Nebraska Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapters and the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission will host the annual State Habitat Meeting in Kearney, Nebraska, on Saturday, February 8 at the Ramada Inn from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

This daylong event is designed for chapter leaders, landowners, conservationists, hunters, and anyone interested in improving wildlife habitat. This habitat event features over 25 seminars and demonstrations throughout the day focusing on techniques for increasing and improving wildlife habitat in Nebraska. Employees from Pheasants Forever (PF) and Quail Forever (QF), Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Natural Resource Conservation Services, and local landowners are slated to present on landscape challenges and successes in the state. An additional focus of this year’s event is youth and women in the outdoors.

Featured wildlife habitat presentations include:
Celebrating 20 Years of Unique Habitat Programs and Accomplishments. Peter Berthelsen, PF/QF Director of Habitat Partnerships. Nebraska is home to many innovative habitat partnerships like Corners for Wildlife. We’ll look at how these programs have evolved and are helping the organization fulfill the pheasant, quail and other wildlife habitat mission. The Return of Mountain Lions to Nebraska. Sam Wilson, NGPC Furbearer and Carnivore Program Manager. Recent research has provided new insight regarding the return of Nebraska’s largest native cat. Crop Rotation and Cover Crops for Wildlife. Ritch Nelson, NRCS State Wildlife Biologist. Cover crops are a relatively new conservation program that can provide many benefits that start with soil health, and move into water quality and wildlife habitat. Producing benefits for the environment are all connected like a large web and this new practice can produce many far-reaching benefits. Quail Successes on Private Lands and Recent Bobwhite Research. Elsa Gallagher, Missouri State Quail Coordinator. Where are quail nesting? Why do hens move the chicks as soon as they hatch? What habitat component encourages early nesting in quail? How are managed private lands faring for quail vs. unmanaged private lands? The answers to these questions and many more! Women in the Outdoors. Ethan Teter, PF Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist. Learn about some of the state-wide outdoor events available for women and ideas on how women’s events can lead to increased attendance at your banquet and new chapter committee members.

All sessions at the Kearney Ramada Inn are open to the public for a full-day price of $30 (includes a noon meal catered by Skeeter Barnes®) until January 16. Beginning January 17, ticket prices increase to $40. Rooms at the Ramada Inn are being held at a special rate for Pheasants Forever at $79 per room until January 17, 2014. A full list of presentations can be found here. To register for the meeting, please visit NebraskaPF.com. For more information or questions regarding the event, please contact Pam Grossart at (308) 850-8395 or email pgrossart@pheasantsforever.org. Pheasants Forever, including its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have more than 140,000 members and 745 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empowered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent, the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grassroots structure

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