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
View grass drill
contact information by
clicking on the picture. The drills
were funded with support from Nebraska
Environmental Trust, Nebraska Game &
Parks Commission and local PF Chapters.
The
Crowing Post:
4/28/08
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.
Winner #1 Name: Sam
Barada
Winners City: Lyons, NE
PF Selling Chapter: Lower Elkhorn Valley PF
Winner #2 Name: Chase Wolf
Winners City: Eustis, NE
PF Selling Chapter:
Republican Valley PF
Attention Gun Winners: If
you have not yet been contacted
by PF please call Mary at
308-428-3062 or
mnoble@pheasantsforever.org
for information on how to
receive your gun!
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 and Quail Forever in
Nebraska!
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.
The
Crowing Post:
4/28/08
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.
