The Habitat Help Desk staffs up to help everyone and anyone with an upland habitat question
By Tom Carpenter, Editor at Pheasants Forever
One of the most bustling places at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic each year is always the Habitat Help Desk. Make it a point to visit when you come to National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic this year, February 20-22 in Minneapolis.
Staffed by PF & QF biologists, The Habitat Help Desk is an area of the show floor dedicated to helping farmers and landowners meet conservation and habitat goals on their property.
Field staff is here to help … and the services are always free.
Landowners can consult with trained PF and QF wildlife biologists to gain insights into management activities, as well as what local, state and federal voluntary conservation programs may be available for their property.
The Habitat Help Desk is open to all. You don't have to own big acres of land to stop and visit. Whether you are interested in creating or restoring habitat on a hundred acres, ten acres, one acre … or in creating a wildlife haven in your backyard … no question is too big or too small.
- Interested in implementing more wildlife habitat on your farm? Improve profitability by taking unproductive acres out of production and putting them into wildlife habitat that also improves soil and water quality.
- Is it time to put land you own or manage into upland wildlife habitat for pheasants, white-tailed deer, and wonderful creatures that we don't hunt? This is the place.
- Want to implement pollinator habitat in your yard? We got you covered. Folks working on "micro" habitats — such as backyard pollinator plots — should stop by.
- Chapter volunteers with an interest in working on habitat in their areas are welcome.
- Perhaps you help someone manage their land and have questions.
If you can find your land on an aerial map, you can sit down right at one of our computers with a biologist and start getting ideas and making plans.
And remember that the Habitat Help Desk is not all about new habitat. Yes, that is critical. But so is habitat management. Prescribed fire, grazing, brush and tree management … keeping existing habitat healthy and vibrant is as important as putting more habitat in the ground.
Stop by the Habitat Help Desk at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic, and get some great, FREE upland habitat advice, insights and help.