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DubuqueLand Pheasants Forever is a completely volunteer, nonprofit organization of area pheasant
hunters, farmers, landowners, and conservationist working to improve Dubuque and surrounding
Counties bird population, habitat, and hunting conditions for pheasants and other wildlife.
The funds raised stay with the DubuqueLand Pheasants Forever to support our many projects in
Dubuque and surrounding counties like:
- Co-Host the Annual Heritage Classic Youth Day at Izaak Walton. This
free event attracts over 100 youths, ages 10-16, to experience gun safety, shotgun and rifle shooting, trapping, fly-fishing, dog training, archery, and more.
- Host our Annual Mentored Youth Hunt at Ringneck Ridge. This free event provides
20 youths a pheasant hunt experience.
- Supported and donated guns for Hunter Safety Education, local High School Trap Teams, and area Sport Camps.
- Co-Host local Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) programs.
- Host the Annual Veterans Hunt. This event provided a free pheasant hunt for
100 local Veterans.
- Improve and upgrade habitat on public and private land. Enhancements include seed donations, food plots,
controlled burns, tree/shrub plantings, and winter cover plantings.
In addition to the above yearly events, DubuqueLand Pheasants Forever was a major contributor to the recent acquisition of multiple areas of public use:
- Several land parcels near Oxford Junction in 2017 and 2018 which combined to create 508 acres for public hunting.
- 96 acre Leifker Wildlife Area south of Cascade which opened for public hunting in the fall of 2016.
- In 2020 we helped purchase the 204 acre Peterson addition adjoining the 201 acre McAndrews Hunting Area.
- We are currently working on a 160 acre addition to the 260 acre Hale Wildlife Area.
- In 2022 we added 31 acres to the McAndrews Peterson Wildlife Area creating a total of 436 acres for hunting.
- These purchases complement previous acquisitions at White Water Canyon, near Bernard, Iowa, and Ringneck Ridge, near Worthington, Iowa.
- We continue to evaluate new sites for public hunting in our local area.
Check out our web site (www.dubuquepheasants.com) to see
more examples and photographs of how your support helps continue programs of habitat development, land
purchase for public hunting, youth hunting activities, and conservation.
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