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Habitat Implementation Programs
Trained Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever professionals and our network of volunteers provide hands-on implementation expertise for practices like prescribed fire, native plantings, and restoration work on both private and public lands.
Public Land Habitat Implementation
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have several programs, and staff positions that work to complete habitat implementation projects on public land. If you are a public land manager, an NGO, or a chapter that is interested in partnering with us to implement habitat on public lands, click on the links below to learn more about our programs and staff. These programs do not exist in every state. If you have a specific enquiry, please reach out to the Habitat Improvement Program Manager for more information.
Private Land Habitat Implementation
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have several programs, and staff positions that work to complete habitat implementation projects on private land. If you are a private landowner, public agency, NGO, or a chapter that is interested in partnering with us to implement habitat on private lands, click on the links below to learn more about our programs and staff. These programs do not exist in every state. If you have a specific enquiry, please reach out to the Habitat Improvement Program Manager for more information.
Habitat Specialist Program
What is a Habitat specialist?
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s Habitat Specialist staff work cooperatively with local, state, federal agency partners and private landowners to enhance habitat on public and private lands across the country. We currently have habitat specialists working in 16 different states across the country providing on-the-ground implementation expertise to complete a diverse array of practices including prescribed fire, upland restoration, woodland thinning, riparian and wetland restoration, and invasive vegetation management. Habitat Specialist positions were created as a natural extension of the work of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever. These positions are an additional means of implementing the habitat work planned by our partners and their Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever colleagues.
The objective of Habitat Specialists is to restore and enhance wildlife habitat, increase the number of positively impacted acres, increase accessibility of habitat management practices to private landowners where there has historically been a lack of contractors, and increase the capacity of our partners where additional staffing is needed.
Habitat Specialist positions are versatile enough to function well as individuals, paired specialists working together, or as five person Habitat Strike Teams. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have established average costs for individual positions and teams. The flexibility of Habitat Specialist positions adds strength and utility to Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever and gives us additional ways to work with all our partners in conservation across the country. These positions are in constant development as new partner opportunities that align with the Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s mission become available. Although Habitat Specialist positions have been around since the early 2000’s they represent a continued tradition of creativity when it comes to achieving our vision and mission of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever across the U.S.
Where is the habitat specialist program?
The Habitat Specialist Program provides technical implementation services to private landowners as well as our state and federal partners. The program is active in 16 states with more states getting involved as we speak.
Practices vary by region and include but are not limited to, prescribed fire, woody encroachment removal, native plantings, herbicide application, TSI, riparian and wetland restoration, and more.
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Habitat Share and Adopt A Programs
What are Habitat Share and Adopt A Programs?
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever work to support our partner public land managers through our Habitat Share and Adopt-A programs. These two programs work through a few different mechanisms, including managing financial support, contractor management, coordinating volunteers, and direct implementation.
Follow the links below to see some examples of how these programs are applied. Please contact the Habitat Improvement Program manager (contact info below) if you are interested in starting one of these programs in your state. If you are a contractor interested in bidding on some of the work associated with these programs, please follow our contractor opportunities link below.
Habitat Share
Adopt-A-Program
Contractor Opportunities
Landowner Financial Assistance and Corners Programs
What are Landowner Financial Assistance and Corners Programs?
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever sometimes use supplemental landowner payments to assist with the implementation of habitat projects. These payments focus on local or regional habitat priorities. Opportunities vary depending on funding availability. This financial assistance is independent of state and federal cost-share programs. If you are interested in state or federal cost-share, please reach out to your local technical assistance provider using our Find a biologist page.
This program tends to be short-term and dependent on available funding. Some past examples have included emphasis on pivot corners and planting them in wildlife habitat. This has been done in Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado.
If you are interested in creating or supporting financial assistance to develop habitat on private land outside of existing federal and state programs, please reach out to the Habitat Improvement Program Manager, contact info below.
Hands on Habitat Program
This program lives on the Get Involved section of our website:
Specialized Equipment
What is specialized equipment and how is it used?
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have specialized equipment for habitat implementation. The equipment is spread throughout the country, and its availability is dependent on that. We have PBA (Prescribed Burn Association) trailers, our chapters own equipment, as well as some other unique examples.
This equipment availability is tied directly to your participation in a PBA or chapter. If you are looking to get involved, please check out our Find a chapter webpage.
For more information on PBAs, please check out the Pheasants Forever Prescribed Fire Website (coming soon) or the Great Plains Fire Exchange.
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