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In 2014, Pheasants Forever, Inc. completed 15,190 wildlife habitat projects and improved habitat for pheasants, quail and other wildlife on 1.4 million acres. In spending $69.2 million on wildlife habitat conservation, public awareness and conservation education efforts - a record by the nonprofit - Pheasants Forever, including its quail division, Quail Forever, maintained a high level of efficiency, spending 90.42 cents of every dollar raised directly on its wildlife habitat conservation mission.

 

Howard Vincent, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever President and CEO, says the organization’s grassroots model continues to be the driving force behind these upland habitat successes. “Membership, volunteerism and chapter involvement continue to lay the groundwork for successful upland habitat projects. Even as our impact grows, we remain true to accomplishing these projects with as little overhead as possible.” Due to its efficiency and effectiveness, Pheasants Forever continues to be recognized as a 4-star charity by Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the country.

 

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapter projects - nesting cover, upland & wetland restoration, food & cover plots and land acquisition projects - accounted for 436,768 acres of improved wildlife habitat in 2014. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Farm Bill wildlife biologists – who help landowners enroll in conservation programs – made 31,074 landowner contacts in 2014, improving more than 1 million acres for wildlife.

 

Because of 41 land acquisition projects in 2014, 5,862 acres of wildlife habitat have been permanently conserved by Pheasants Forever. All these properties have or will be turned over to state/federal natural resource agencies and opened to outdoor recreation, including hunting.

 

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapters held 1,115 youth events in 2014, which attracted 65,000 youth participants, a new organizational record. Chapters hosted youth hunts, sponsored shooting teams, helped with youth pollinator projects and held family field days in their communities.

 

A new federal Farm Bill was finally passed in 2014, and its conservation title addressed some of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s top wildlife habitat priorities, including a regional “Sodsaver” provision, reauthorization of the Conservation Reserve Program, crop insurance linked to conservation compliance and a new Agricultural Conservation Easement Program.

 

Pheasants Forever opened its first regional headquarters in Brookings, South Dakota, headed by Dave Nomsen, the organization’s longtime vice president of government affairs. The new office will allow Pheasants Forever to better combat ongoing, substantial upland habitat loss in the Dakotas.

 

Pheasants Forever, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Pheasants Forever’s full Annual Report will be published in the Spring 2015 issue of the Pheasants Forever Journal of Upland Conservation.

 

About Pheasants Forever 

 

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 700 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.

Photo credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS