Pheasants Forever- SCAM or do they help upland hunters?

My chapter pushes GF&P to improve the public ground and access to it. We have purchased and turned 5 parcels of ground into public hunting areas. We also try and get program information to the local landowners. We have planted numerous pollinator plots through out our city. These get the publics attention and also serve as educational displays.

I am sure there are chapters that are questionable but if that is the case why don't you join them and rattle some Sabres? If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem.

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As I mentioned earlier, I have some issues with our current chapters leadership but in the past that chapter has done some great things including purchasing a driil to plant CRP that was made available at low or no cost to farmers to plant CRP fields and pivot corners. There was also some reduced cost CRP seed available.

Some of that ground is now enrolled in public access programs, most is private but some can be accessed by asking permission and some can’t be accessed at all but all of it provides habitat.

Those of you who really understand know that high quality CRP grass seed is expensive but provides good habitat cover. The cheapest is cool season grasses like Brome but it isn’t the best for habitat. Subsidizing the cost of the seed to provide high quality cover benefits all game animals and birds and I’d much rather see a CRP field with pheasants that I’m not able to hunt than not see any pheasants at all.

I think many of you feel the same way but there are obviously some that can’t see the forest because of the trees!
 
3car you brought up something i forgot to mention...since 2012 when I joined this chapter we have contributed, iirc 80,000.00 to our nrcs for drills and other equipment purchases or repairs.
 
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