The Sugar River Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever  has  been actively working to increase wild pheasant populations in South Central Wisconsin for 20 years.  Our  Annual Banquet  is scheduled for October 6th at Lelle's in Woodford.  Copy the  2007 Sugar River Valley Annual Banquet ticket form and send it in today  We have monthly chapter meetings the first Tuesday of the month 7pm at  the Argyle Rod & Gun Club.  The chapter is well on its way to $250,000 worth of local habitat work done in the last decade plus.  We have been involved with establishing over 3,000 acres of Prairie Grasses, 35,000 trees and over 1000 Food Plots over the years.

The DNR rewarded the chapter for its early habitat work by stocking almost 2000 F1 generation Genetic Wild Captured Pheasants from Iowa in the North Monroe, & West Monroe Release Areas.   Each year in the last half of April and early May, the chapter performs Pheasant Crow Counts at the break of day for the DNR & Year after year these areas are always the highest counts in the state usually 3-5 times higher than most other study areas.  This year I counted 76 pheasants in the field you see above after the December snows.  The closest release point was 4 miles away and the last stocking 4 years ago.

The Chapter has also been very active in local youth conservation education and also has been deeply involved in the Leopold Education Project which is a large part of Pheasants Forever Youth Program.  4 Facilitators from the chapter have been trained and all 4 have also attended the Advanced LEP Workshop.  This has led to the development of 2 school prairies. 

A core of over a dozen chapter members have also been the driving force in putting on at least a half dozen major events including several huge local scouting camporees with hundreds of  kids involved in each event.   The most recent was a Boy Scout Council Camporee with over 1600 kids mentored in outdoor skills.

We were instrumental, together with the Argyle Rod & Gun Club and Green  County Conservation League, in organizing a yearly youth hunt for pheasants in the early fall, the last one had around 40 kids attend what ended up being a all day program.  We also helped start and participated in  Youth Turkey Hunts

The chapter has been involved with controlled burning for many years and has its own equipment which we have been known to help out with.

We own a No-till Corn Planter, a regular Corn Planter, Broadcast Seeders and spraying equipment as well as several different types of seeds and several food plot mixes that we distribute free of charge.

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