Tuesday, March 28, 2023

QUWF Has Record Setting Banquet, adds 3,000 acres to its Grouse Coop

The main core of the QUWF business model is to let local chapters retain the super-majority of funds raised, control their funds locally and help their local landowners and communities. The QUWF MO Grouse chapter, just completed a superb banquet. This QUWF Chapter leads the way in wild ruffed grouse restocking and restoration on nearly 130,000 acres of private lands and the banquet each year helps landowners accomplish major timber management projects, essential for grouse and all upland game.

“We sold out before the doors ever opened and had additional walk ins for a packed house of nearly 400” stated Tom Westoff, Chapter Chairman. “Though we are still tallying all the items, it looks to be our best ever fund raiser financially and everyone had great time” Tom explains.

Not only do they support the largest MO coop group of well over a hundred local veteran and other private landowners but they support the community youth as well. “The Chapter presented two $1,000 checks to the Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters in Montgomery County and the Hermann High School chapter” Westoff said. The chapter is also known for supporting the QUWF Endowment Fund at the College of the Ozarks helping students in related conservation fields obtain their debt free degrees.

“The chapter is about to present and sponsor the QUWF annual youth day wherein 200 area youth from the ages of 7 to 15 can participate in a multi-station training day. They receive true hands on experience from archery, fly-fishing, shotguns, rifles and pistols to wildlife identification, trapping information to general outdoors skills” explains Craig Alderman of QUWF. This year QUWF designed and is using an online registration system for its chapter youth events. Dubbed “Youth Tracks” the on-line system gathers all pertinent information for the event committee and can be modified for events across the country.

“Another very significant portion of banquet results was the addition of two more adjacent land owners, totaling 3,000 additional acres who wish to join the coop and perform habitat work for all upland game” states Chief Wildlife Biologist Nick Prough. “We will begin site visits immediately since they have already begun extensive TSI work on their own. This is the best results of active cooperatives of great landowners. I do think this is the largest contingent coop in the state of Missouri” Prough points out.

About QUWF and the AFC:

The Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation (QUWF), is the only Veteran founded and managed national conservation organization in the U.S., and the only multi-specie and clean stream national organization including youth fishing teams, based in Missouri. QUWF with its partner the American Falconry Conservancy (AFC) “turns-the-dirt™” locally and nationally focusing on veteran and all private landowners with chapters that manage and control their own funds. To join QUWF, get involved or open a chapter locally for upland wildlife and habitat restoration/ clean streams or the new youth fishing teams, visit our web site at www.quwf.net or email ADMIN@quwf.net. QUWF is a proud Conservation Partner of the Bass Pro Shop Cabela’s Outdoor Fund, a member of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and an Endowment Partner with the College of the Ozarks. The AFC and its members are dedicated to the historical sport of falconry and the preservation of upland wildlife habitat and populations. Visit our website at www.falconryconservancy.org for more information.

Preserve the Land and Clean Streams….Build the Habitat….Hunt and Fish for Generations” with QUWF™ and the AFC™.