Pheasants Forever

And I know it looks different down there.

I think when we speak about CRP, A lot of times we talk about the fact that you should discuss your plan with a manager, a wildlife biologist from Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever, to talk about what does that look like? And a lot of the CRP contracts are going to be written in such a way that they're diversity.

And it's not blue stem grass.

When we say CRP, a lot of people think blue stem grass.

Well done.

I'm going to give to Pheasants Forever.

They're the habitat organization.

I love that about them, although I don't hunt a lot of pheasants these days.

I hunt other things that love the habitat they provide.

that it's just like something everybody benefits from, Pheasants Forever.

Even if you just like clean water, if that's important to you, Pheasants Forever helps contribute to that.

Great selection.

Push to bring a state lottery to Nebraska, outpacing anti-gambling forces 3-1.

Big checks from Pheasants Forever, the Nature Conservancy, and out-of-state lottery machine vendors.

Interesting opposition leaning heavily on church groups and former Governor Kay Orr.

And the battle for the Unicam getting expensive.

That kind of transferred into my master's project where I worked on scale in Gamble Squale in West Texas.

Ultimately from there, I worked for Pheasants Forever and then I've also worked for Missouri Department of Conservation and all of those positions had a pretty big emphasis on quail and obviously pheasants.

So I've always been interested and involved with game birds and finally had the opportunity to come back home to Louisiana and work for the department here.

working with primarily doves and woodcocks, and also work with rails too.

I drove out for the banquet on Friday night, had a tremendous attendance at the elementary school gymnasium, a couple hundred people.

And then they shut down Main Street, Captain, on Saturday morning from 6 a.m. till 9 a.m. And I did a live Pheasants Forever podcast on Main Street.

With 30 mile an hour winds and 40 degree temperatures.

But they had some of those heaters that they use in the sidelines of football games to warm up the crowd.

It was a very, very windy day.

I was fortunate.

I was hunting with a longtime Pheasants Forever volunteer on his private property that he has worked on.

Just put his heart and soul into making tremendous pheasant habitat.

But as luck would have it, Matthew...

As I pulled up to that parking lot, two rooster pheasants flew across the gravel road in front of me, coming out of the neighbor's cornfield and landed in that beautiful prairie grass planted by Pheasants Forever hands.

Members that worked on the ground, my family included.

It's a beautiful thing, I'm telling you.