Nebraska Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Chapters

Click on the county to find the following information:

• Chapter Habitat Program

• Historical Habitat Summary 

• No-Till Grass Drill Contact

• Next Chapter Event

• How to Start a New Chapter

Red Cedars – friend or foe?
 

The definition of a “weed” is generally something that’s in a place that you don’t want it.  A corn plant in the middle of a soybean field is a weed where the year before it was a crop.  Such is the story behind the Eastern Red Cedar in Nebraska.

For many years now, Nebraskans have been planting red cedar trees as shelterbelts around homes and in habitat projects.  It can provide a great wind block in the winter and cover that many forms of wildlife seek out when it colds and tough in the winter.  On the other hand, if you look at much of the state’s grasslands, red cedars have invaded most of them and are actually starting to take over in some areas.  You don’t have to look very far to see both examples of where cedars have been planted on purpose and ones where it obviously hasn’t.

In the cases where cedars are showing up where they are wanted, calling them a “weed” is taking the easy way out.  In many cases, cedars are impacting the quality of grasslands for both wildlife and livestock.  The problem has become so pervasive that there are now resource agencies that at one time promoted their planting and are now providing cost share funds to help remove them. 

PF and QF are one of those resource groups helping landowners remove cedars from their grasslands. In order to learn more about controlling and removing cedars from grasslands, contact a PF or QF wildlife biologist today.  You can track one down on this website and learn about the different incentives available to help you keep the “weedy” cedars out of your grasslands and in the shelterbelts where we wanted them.

habitat today….pheasants forever!

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Improving Nebraska and its Natural Resources One Acre at a Time!

 

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 CHARLOTTE EDWARDS ~ Artist

• Charlotte is a native Nebraskan born in 1928 who depicts game birds in much of her work with a full Nebraska background.

• Charlotte is a self taught artist who started painting as a hobby at the age of 27.  She started painting full time in 1970 when her children were grown.

• Much of Charlotte’s passion for wildlife came from hunting waterfowl with her husband Jack on the Platte River.  In fact, Charlotte and Jack spent many dates in the duck blind which Charlotte contributes to their successful marriage.

• Charlotte’s first major award was earned in 1977 with a pheasant painting and repeated that award in 1978 at the Midwest Wildlife Show in Kansas City, MO.

• Other notable awards include:  1984 New Hampshire Pheasants Stamp, 1984 & 1991 Nebraska Habitat Stamp, Nebraska Ducks Unlimited Sponsor Artist for 1986 & 1991, and Iowa Ducks Unlimited Artist of the Year in 1988 & 1990.

• Each year Charlotte donates her artwork to Pheasants Forever chapters across the state, and her work has been showcased in the Pheasants Forever banquet package.  It’s safe to say that Charlotte has helped Pheasants Forever Chapters in Nebraska raise thousands of dollars for habitat, youth education, and habitat equipment.

• Charlotte now resides in Bridgeport, NE with her husband Jack.  She is still actively painting, and you can usually see her and Jack attending PF events in Western NE.   

  

Would you like to upgrade a CRP field? Do you have another habitat project in mind? Let us know so we can help!

Pheasants Forever (PF) and Quail Forever (QF) are non-profit, conservation organizations formed in 1982 and 2005, consecutively. Nebraska is the third largest PF and QF state with 63 chapters and over 15,524 members. Since 1986, PF chapters have spent over $18.1 million in the state by working with local landowners and resource agencies to establish wildlife habitat, provide equipment to establish habitat, promote conservation education and develop new habitat programs in the state.

Throughout this website, you’ll be able to learn about the many unique partnerships PF has developed in Nebraska, find out where to locate no-till grass drills and other habitat equipment, learn where the next Youth Mentor Hunt event will occur and how to join this great organization.

If you’ve never been a member before, now is the time to join….we need your support and will be able to improve more habitat with your membership.