Kansas Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever State Habitat Meeting is Feb. 6

Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever State Habitat Meeting is Feb. 6 in Salina

Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever State Habitat Meeting is Feb. 6 in Salina
500 wildlife habitat projects improve 31,000 Kansas acres for wildlife in ’09.

Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever

Salina, Kan - -(AmmoLand.com)- Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever will hold its 2010 State Habitat Meeting on Saturday, February 6th at the Ramada Inn in Salina, Kansas.

The event is filled with seminars covering land management, bird dogs and upland hunting.

The meeting will conclude with the Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever State Banquet at 6:30PM.

The Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever 2010 State Habitat Meeting will offer seminars throughout the day, including:

Conservation Reserve Program Maintenance and Management
Natural Resources Conservation Service Landowner Help Desk
Hunting Dog Health and Care
Estate Planning Help Desk
Hunting Tips & Wild Game Cooking

“Upland hunting continues to grow in Kansas, and that can be attributed to the work Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever do,” said Jordan Martincich, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever regional representative in eastern Kansas.”We have an excellent arrangement of seminars at this year’s banquet and we encourage anyone interested to come and see what it means to be a part of this organization. It’s a great chance to meet fellow conservationists and to also become part of something which will preserve wildlife habitat in the state of Kansas for many years to come.”

“The Habitat Organization’s” 2009 Kansas Wildlife Habitat Work

The 42 Pheasants Forever chapters, 9 Quail Forever chapters and 5,300 members of “The Habitat Organization” totaled over 500 wildlife habitat projects in 2009, benefitting pheasants, quail and other wildlife on 31,700-plus acres.

*Project Type*	*2009 Projects*	*2009 Acres*	*Historical Totals* *(Since 1982)*	*Total Acres Benefitted* *(Since 1982)*
Nesting Cover	29	1,105	774	31,677
Land Acquisition	-	-	1	115
Wetland Restoration	2	32	46	2,786
Winter Cover	30	32	810	1,292
Food & Cover Plots	399	1,871	3,469	27,073
Habitat Maintenance	78	28,737	567	63,423
TOTALS	538	31,777	5,667	126,366

For more information about Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever in Kansas, including the 2010 Kansas State Habitat Meeting, contact one the organization’s regional representatives: Devon Walter in western Kansas at (785) 524-4033 / dwalter@pheasantsforever.org and Jordan Martincich in eastern Kansas at (785) 242-3175 / jmartincich@pheasantsforever.org.

For additional information please visit www.PheasantsForever.org and www.QuailForever.org