Brown County Pheasants Forever

Get your tickets early, contact a chapter officer or buy at many locations throughout the Brown County area! Over 30 guns and hundreds of prizes valued at over $20,000 raffled throughout the evening. All proceeds stay within the Brown County chapter to protect, restore, and enhance habitat for pheasants, deer, turkeys, ducks and other wildlife in Brown County. Habitat is the key to conservation.

Admission: $50.00 (includes a one year membership), $65 member and spouse (includes 1 year membership), $25 ages 18 and under (includes 1 year youth membership), $250 Sponsorship (includes two admissions, 1 year membership, plaque, medallion, and choice of $65 gift certificate to PF catalog or the print of the year)

Hunters Dream Raffle $25 per ticket and only 600 tickets sold. Winner takes ALL of the following: Browning BPS 12 gauge, Browning BPS 10 gauge, Browning BPS 20 gauge, Browning Silver Hunter 12 gauge, Browning Citori White Satin Hunter 12 gauge, Browning A Bolt Medallion .204, Browning A Bolt Medallion .30-06, Browning A Bolt Medallion .300WMS, Browning BL .22 Field Lever Action, Custom Oak Gun Cabinet.

Contact your chapter officer or email jtberg@newulmtel.net _____________________________________________________________________________

REMINDER

Our regular meetings are held at 8pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Servicemens' Club, 109 1st Ave S, Sleepy Eye. We are currently planning our 24th Annual Banquet and your assistance would be greatly appreciated. We are meeting more frequently. If you are interested in volunteering with Brown County's grassroots conservation organization, contact a chapter officer or join us at the Servicemen's Club on the 2nd Tuesday at 8pm. If you are interested in becoming involved with the Brown County Chapter of Pheasants Forever, please contact a chapter officer or join us at the Servicemens' Club. _____________________________________________________________________________

Greetings from the Banquet Committee. On March 17th, 2012, the Brown County Chapter of Pheasants Forever will be holding our 25th Annual Banquet at the Orchid Inn in Sleepy Eye. Attended by over 300 people each year, our Banquet is our primary fundraising tool. 100% of the funds raised stay with the Brown County Chapter, to be invested in Brown County. Our banquet is wildly successful and has resulted in Pheasants Forever, Inc., investing over $2 million in Brown County since our founding over two decades ago. Of course, we owe the success of our organization to our donors, volunteers, and most importantly, members like you.

We’d like to take this opportunity to briefly describe what your investment in our Chapter of Pheasants Forever means to Brown County. Although our name implies that a gaudy game bird is the primary benefactor of your donation, the benefits extend beyond our favorite game bird to other wildlife, soil and water conservation, and the quality of life in Brown County, too. Brown County Pheasants Forever has contributed to the completion of 300 habitat projects on over 3,000 acres in Brown County. These projects benefit not only pheasants, but all wildlife, and help reduce soil erosion and protect our waters.

Although private projects are an integral part of our mission, our major focus has been on the acquisition of public land. Brown County Pheasants Forever has participated in the acquisition of 17 properties totaling nearly 2000 acres of land that all varieties of game and non-game wildlife call home, and which are now open to the public for multiple uses, particularly hunting, as part of the state Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) program. Your contributions made these projects happen. With your continued support, that $10 or $20 you spend on a raffle can by leveraged by Pheasants Forever to create $100 or $200 in grant funding for projects right here at home.

During the past year, we funded seeding and improvements on Brown County WMAs. In the coming year, we will fund burning on WMAs and will leverage local money with grant money to make permanent improvements on other WMAs. We hope to be able to announce the acquisition of additional land for inclusion in the WMA program. As always, we look for further habitat projects.

We continue to improve and expand our fledgling youth and hunter recruitment programs. In the past four years, we have supported youth shooting programs in New Ulm and Springfield, archery programming in the Comfrey schools, and last fall held our fifth annual youth pheasant hunt in which nearly 30 youth participated. We continue to provide corn to feed pheasants and more so, encourage food and winter thermal cover plantings as a permanent solution to our winter weather. We continue our regular contributions to the PF Legislative Action Fund to advocate for conservation funding. As you can see, your investment in Brown County Pheasants Forever has a large and lasting impact.

We hope you are pleased with what you’ve accomplished as a member of Brown County Pheasants Forever. It is important to remember our goals and what we are really working for when we attend the banquet. We do our best to assure you a good time while at the same time raising money to accomplish these objectives. This year there will be over $20,000 in prizes and guns handed out. Although we are confident you will have a good time, please let us know what we can do to improve the experience for you in the future. Better yet, plan on attending our monthly meetings held the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Servicemen’s Club in Sleepy Eye. Meetings begin at 8 to accommodate travel for members from all over the county.

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CHAPTER OFFICERS

President: Dan Braulick 507-794-2315

President Emeritus: Dan Hoffman 507-794-6789

Youth/Education Chair:: Scott Zeig 507-276-2717

Vice-President/Secretary: Jeremy Berg 507-240-0096

Treasurer: Tim Schwartz 507-276-3679

State Liaison: Dale Trebesch _____________________________________________________________________________

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