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Save the Date for the Missouri State Quail Forever Meeting!!

Friday evening (6pm) August 27th through Saturday evening (5pm) August 28th in Columbia, MO at the Bradford Farms Research Station.

CRP General Sign-Up Landowner Informational Meetings Being Offered

CRP 2010 General SignUp

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general signup. Quail Forever will be hosting a series of Landowner Informational meetings the week of August 9th – 13th. All meetings begin at 7pm. These meetings will help answer landowner questions about how to improve enrollment chances and wildlife values in CRP. Meetings are scheduled in:

Upcoming Banquets

  • August 21st: Moreau Valley QF, Jeff City Area
  • Sept 18th: MO KAN QF, Kansas City
  • Sept 25th: Mid MO Young Guns QF, Macon
  • Oct 2nd: Mark Twain QF, Paris
  • Oct 2nd: Shortgrass QF, Chillicothe
  • Oct 16th: Whistling Bobs QF, Edina
  • November 6th: Northeast MO PF, Memphis

Other Upcoming Events:

MID MO Young Guns in Macon has these events planned:

  • Women’s Hunt - October 16th
  • Dog Fun Trial - October 23rd
  • Youth Bird Hunt - December 11th
  • Youth Coon Hunt - December 28th
  • Youth Rabbit Hunt - January 22nd

MO KAN QF in Kansas City

  • Youth Dog Field Trial (National Hunting and Fishing Day), James A. Reed Conservation Area - September 25th

Gateway QF in St. Louis

  • Youth Bird Hunt - October 23rd

Check out the latest newsletter: Show-Me Happenings July 2010

Hey Chapters!
Be sure to check out the Chapter Resources tab to the left for "one-stop-shopping" for many of the documents and forms necessary to run a successful chapter. We've also updated the Education Page and added links to the Show-Me Happenings Newsletter below. We hope you'll find the new resources useful and be sure check back regularly as we will be adding more information often.

If you have information, testimonials, stories, or pictures you would like have added to the site, contact Missouri's PF/QF Regional Biologist, Elsa Gallagher.

The Show-me State boasts 22 Quail Forever Chapters and 6 Pheasants Forever Chapters. We welcome your interest in helping to restore quail, pheasant, and other wildlife to Missouri's diverse landscape.

Visit the Chapter Contact page to find contact information for a local chapter or feel free to email our Regional Biologist, Elsa Gallagher at egallagher@quailforever.org.

Starting Your Own Local Quail Forever Chapter



How is a chapter formed?
Chapters are formed by committed groups that have an interest in seeing upland wildlife habitat improved. After initial consultation with Quail Forever, a group generates interest in an organizational meeting for their area through publicity and talking with associates and community leaders.

A Quail Forever Regional Biologist will conduct the meeting/seminar. Although successful chapters have been established with fewer individuals, it is best to have 10-20 people at the initial meeting. Other individuals can be added later to this core of workers and potential officers. At a subsequent meeting, a board of directors is appointed, representing the area served by the chapter.

Who should be included?
All persons interested in upland wildlife. Where possible, involve business and professional people for organizational and financial expertise and for contacts in your community. Generally, a cross-section of individuals representing all segments of the community will ensure chapter success. Try to involve farmers, landowners, state wildlife biologists and NRCS, FSA representatives as well.

What are the responsibilities of the chapters?
Chapters sign a charter agreement requiring them to hold one (1) annual fundraising event where Quail Forever membership is included in the ticket price to the event.

What is the distribution of money from chapter fundraising banquets and other events?
Chapters maintain control over the expenditure of 100 percent of the funds raised at all chapter events. The only money sent to the national office are those funds generated from the sale of QF memberships. These funds are used in part to provide members a subscription to the Quail Forever magazine, a membership decal and card. The remainder pays for administrative expenses like postage, printing, insurance, salaries and travel.

How do chapters typically spend their money?
Funds are typically spent on local habitat projects like upgrading existing CRP, establishing quality nesting cover, managing edge cover, or tree thinning. These projects are done on either private or public lands. Chapters have also become involved in cost sharing the acquisition of public wildlife areas with agencies. Habitat planning and establishment is accomplished in close cooperation with professional biologists. Chapters may also choose to spend funds on youth education programs or contribute towards National legislative efforts directed at beneficial Farm Bill programs. Where possible, chapters dovetail funds through cost sharing with wildlife agencies. Funds may not be spent on stocking of pen-reared quail or predator control.

What does the National office provide?

  • The services of a Regional Biologist for fundraising assistance and habitat planning advice.
  • Top quality QF merchandise at reduced prices.
  • Legal and accounting services that minimize chapter reporting.
  • Liability insurance for QF sponsored events.
  • A seed program that provides free food plot seed and wholesale purchase prices for nesting mixes.
  • Free lists and labels to chapters for all of their members.
  • All IRS filings and compliance reporting.

For more information on starting a Quail Forever chapter in Missouri, please contact: Elsa Gallagher - (660) 277-3647

In other states, please contact: Jim Wooley, Director of Field Operations/Quail Forever (641) 774-2238

Quail Forever's unique system empowers county chapters with the responsibility to determine how 100% of their locally raised conservation funds will be spent. This truly grassroots operating strategy allows local chapters to see the fruits (or in most cases, birds) of their efforts in their own communities while still having a strong voice for conservation policy in Washington, DC.

Quail Forever (QF) was started in August 2005 and now has over 100 chapters nationwide and more than 5,000 members. Its parent organization, Pheasants Forever (PF) began in 1982 and boasts over 650 chapters and more than 115,000 members nationwide.