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Welcome to the NEW Mahaska County Pheasants Forever Website!

We have redesigned our website to give you better information and easier access to what we do as a chapter! We are always looking for volunteers to help us in our efforts to conserve wildlife habitat right here in Mahaska County! If you want to be part of a nationally acclaimed Pheasants Forever Chapter, JOIN US! We would love to have you!

We meet the 2nd Sunday of every month at 6:00 P.M.

at the Mahaska County Road Shop (2074 Old Highway 163).

Our next meeting will be:

Every Sunday Until the Banquet @ 6:00 P.M.

Join Pheasants Forever Today!

Click here to start investing in local habitat!

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***BECOME A MAHASKA COUNTY BANQUET SPONSOR!***

Help us get habitat on the ground right here in Mahaska County!

Click here for more information!

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***EARLY ROOSTER BANQUET REGISTRATION***

Get your banquet tickets by March 3, 2012 and be eligible to win $200 in Rooster Bucks to spend at our banquet! Sign up here!

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Thanks to the support of our community, the Mahaska County Pheasants Forever chapter has been able to carry out a wide variety of quality projects. In the 23 years just past, Mahaska County Pheasants Forever has invested $601,547.00 for conservation, including the local projects below:

· 539 food plot projects for 4487.5 acres, at a cost of $24,619.00

· 482 nesting cover projects for 5260.6acres, at a cost of $209,313.00

· 78 Controlled Burn projects for 2307.3 acres.

· 10 Wetland projects on 474 acres.

· 375 Woody cover projects for 709 acres and 144,218 trees, at a cost of $29,399.00.

· 10 Land acquisition projects for 1189 acres, at a cost of $84,591.00.

· Helped sponsor an annual outdoor classroom for all Mahaska County fifth graders, which had over 400 people attend.

· Sponsored the High school shooting team.

· Sponsored an area Youth Hunter Education Challenge Team.

· Mahaska County Pheasants Forever has reached over 5224 youth in its youth programs.

· Helped sponsor the annual Youth Outdoor Field Day, attended by over 200 kids which all received a ringnecks membership.

· We have invested $142,837.00 into youth education and public awareness.

· We have purchased over $44,760.00 of habitat equipment.

· Contributed $2500.00 to the Legislative Action Fund.

· Hosted our 11^th Youth Mentor Pheasant Hunt.

· Mahaska and Poweshiek County Pheasants Forever have partnered together and hired at Farm Bill Biologist.

· Contributed 10% of our banquet profits, to the Iowa PF Land Trust for land acquisition.

· Hosted a Field & Stream Hero For A Day event at the Hull Wildlife Area, 112 volunteers worked on 5 different habitat projects.

· Our plans for the upcoming year:

- Fight to protect CRP in the Farm Bill.

- Continuing our commitment to Conservation Education in Mahaska County.

- Sponsor local girls to attend Outdoor Journey Camp.

- Sponsor local boys to attend DNR Outdoor Skills Camp.

- Cost-sharing cover on CRP, WRP & wetland restoration projects.

- Expanded private lands programs such as food plots, nesting cover, and mid- contract management.

- Add more to local land acquisitions.

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