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We can generally tell in the first month’s training whether the dog has any ability to make a good hunting dog and at that time we will tell you so. All dogs receive their training through experience in the field under the gun with lots of shooting over them. All dogs worked daily on game. Particular attention payed to staunchness on point, retrieving and hunting dead. Our system of training is not restricted by seasons of the year or game laws. We train year ‘round, weather permitting. Our training done the old way-no shortcuts-just hard work, patience and plenty of birds-monthly reports plus pic-tures of dog’s progress on all dog’s coming into the kennel.




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Cover Photo: AKC Field Champion Windtuck’s Enough Said (FC/AFC Sniksoh Free Boy x FC/AFC Windtuck KC Quiet Commotion JH). “Sadie” is our stylish pointing combination of NFC /FC/AFC Microdot HOF and NFC/FC/AFC Aux-Arc’s Mark HOF and NFC/DC/AFC

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Photo Jim Masolotte while training our Windtuck Brittanys on our Agate Windtuck Ranch near Limon, Colorado.

3 T h i s i s s u e s featured website

4 What’s Inside

5 F r o m T h e Publisher’s Desk

16 Double D By Ted Clay and Keslea Kumbier

2 0 A m e r i c a n K e n n e l C l u b Offers Tips On D o g - F r i e n d l y Gardening

21 Little Grouse on the Prairie Alaska’s Bird Hunters Enjoy an Ice Age Leftover By Ken Marsh

25 News from the Non-profits

29 News From The AKC

32 News from the Enemy Camps & the Good Guys

36 State News

51 Gun Shows

6 What’s New

8 Grouse Dogs By Richard Weaver

11 Lyme Disease Awareness: Tips to protect yourself, family and pet

1 2 B r e e d e r Contracts: Breeder & Puppy Owner Obligations By Dennis Guldan

14 The Feeling By Loyde Childs

56 Calendar Of Events For Field Trials & Hunt Tests

65 Dog Shows

76 Birds In The Pan

77 Adver t is ing Rates

78 Marketplace

82 Last Laugh




From The Publisher’s Desk

Welcome to the April/May issue of Bird Dog & Retriever News. Thank you ad-vertisers for paying for the magazine and readers for spreading the word. We are still playing catch-up as this issue is a few weeks late. But I have been busy. Last weekend we were suppose to finish this issue, but drove to Iowa instead to rescue a Vizsla. More on that later. And it’s spring time to work outside. Don’t worry I long ago made sure our calendar of events are six months ahead of the current date.

So what’s in this current issue? First we have six new products we thought you’d

be interested in. Then we took an excerpt out of Richard Weaver’s book about Grouse dogs. Ticks always being a problem during spring and summer, we included an ar-ticle on Lyme’s disease for you and your dogs. I took a look at breeder and puppy contracts. Loyde Childs takes a look at dogs & feelings. Ted Clay takes us for a trip with his Vizsla pup.

With the spring/summer comes gardening. So we brought you an article from

the AKC on dogs and gardening. When you think of bird hunting, few of us think of Alaska, but this issue we’ll take a look at Alaskan grouse hunting. We have calendars for: gun shows, dog shows and field trial and hunt tests. IN addition we have news from the industry, the states and non-profits.

I hope the June/July issue will be out and online before July 4th. But with a new

dog, by the way her name is Jersey, one never knows. I guess that is why they call magazines periodicals, cause they come out periodically!

That’s it for now,See you in the field and at

the shows, Dennis GuldanPublisher Bird Dog & Retriever News




What’s New

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The Original Muck Boot Company Woody Sport

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Dog Treats for hips and joints

Bimini’s Best™ Dog Hip & Joint Health Supplement can be used to support and main-tain normal healthy joints. It can be used with adult dogs over the age of one. This health supplement has been scientifically developed to support health and provide dogs with a better quality of life. The active ingredients: Cat’s claw, Willow bark, and high quality fish oil reduce discomfort associated with regular activity and the oc-casional inflammation and help lubricate the joints. .This health supplement is not a treat, although it is designed to achieve a high level of palatability. If a dog does not accept it the chew can be crumbled and mixed with regular food or used with enhancements or treats.

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Dog Exercise Toy

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Chapter 6 The Making of a Grouse Dog

Of such is the great grouse dog, a rare in-dividual, that can be properly placed without hesitation on the pinnacle of bird dog devel-opment. William Harnden Foster said it best in New England Grouse Shooting many years ago. Few who have been there and have hunted these birds day after day, season after season, throughout the course of a lifetime would disagree. Great grouse dogs are special indi-viduals from unique bloodlines, dogs who are given the opportunity over and over again to point and retrieve grouse for their two-legged companions.

To this grouse hunter, they are also gentle, loving companions who are as at home on the couch as they are in the grouse woods. The com-panion grouse dog is a compromise of intensity in the woods; the intelligence to know how to use it; and the common sense to know when to turn it on and off. There are old bloodlines, bred and hunted by men who were there and who did it-men like William Harnden Foster, George Ryman, Burton Spiller, and George Bird Evans, to name a few. These men were grouse hunters who bred grouse dogs, and they knew what a real grouse dog should be. They may have differed on some of the particulars, but they all wanted dogs that hunted to the gun and retrieved to the gunner. Unfortunately, many of the characteristics valued in those dogs are being lost in modern bloodlines, both through careless breeding and on purpose. While I have trained a thousand-plus dogs of all types and breeds, I am an English-setter man at heart. As a result, some of my observations will be breed specific, but most are just about grouse dogs.

As a grouse hunter, dog trainer, and some-time breeder, I strive for the dog that has enough intensity to get out there and do the required work, yet enough biddability to do it for me, not just itself. Before proceeding, allow me to pass on that I define intensity the way the old-timers did, not the way it is often perceived today. In-tensity means my dog is all hunt, every second it is down in grouse cover, hunting at whatever range and pace its genetics and training allow. That leaves range and speed as a matter of personal choice to be dictated by the cover, the quarry, the age and condition of the hunter, and other personal preferences.

Thanks to Countrysport Press we have offered you an excerpt from Grouse Dogs by Richard Weaver

Grouse Dogs By Richard Weaver




A faster dog is not a better dog and vice versa. A grouse dog hunting in the thickest cover at forty yards may have as much intensity as a ground-eating plains quail dog working at a quarter of a mile. They are different creatures with differ-ent circumstances to handle and different genetics with which to do it. Yes, there are plodders that do not put enough distance between themselves and the hunter to encounter and point undisturbed grouse. Then, too, there are wild-eyed racehorses who are worthless when their whereabouts are always in question, dogs that cannot be reached in time to get a shot when they do point. When it comes down to it, range and speed are matters of personal preference, and far too often they are the focus of discus-sions on what a grouse dog should be.

What I prefer may not be what you prefer, and that is as it should be. There are already too many arbitrary standards in too many competitions set by people who often do little, if any, grouse hunting. Certain characteristics are declared su-perior, and those who dare to take another path are shouted down.

What follows is one grouse hunter‚Äôs idea of what a grouse dog should be.

First, I prefer a dog that predominately air-scents. An air-scenting dog that quarters efficiently will locate more

birds, more quickly, and at a greater distance than a ground tracker. As a result, such a dog will also be less likely to bust jumpy grouse. This narrows my choice to setters and pointers, with setters being my personal preference.

Second, I prefer a dog that is pensive and very much ‚Äúwithin itself.‚Äù From Rose‚Äôs first season, she has been all business. When I put her down, she relieves her-self, then eyes me with that ‚Äúlet‚Äôs -go-to work‚Äù look. There is no racing around like a fanatic whose drive is overriding its brain. My hunt-ing partners have expressed opinions such as, ‚ÄúThat dog doesn‚Äôt take a step without thinking‚Äù and ‚ÄúShe hunts like a cat.‚Äù

Third, I like a dog that has a steady, graceful pace that will carry it all day in grouse woods, do so again tomorrow, and so on. To a great extent this is an extension of item number two about dogs with a thoughtful approach to hunting, yet grace of movement and a ground-covering stride. In the ridge-and-valley region of our Appa-lachians, a dog that is too reck-less will not physically survive the rigors of rocks, deadfalls, inclines, greenbriers, red briers, and so on. Rose floats through grouse woods, her feet almost not touching the ground, and the grouse are unaware of her presence until the moment of the point.

Fourth, a grouse dog should lock on point at the first hint of a scent particle in the air. There should be no moving on to confirm scent, no excited racing around to locate the source, no concern for position or style. The dog should hold the posture it is caught in at the moment scent is detected, and there should be no doubt. From that moment forward, the only movement might be a head swivel or eye glance to tell me, ‚ÄúBoss, if you cross the stream and go around that tree you will be in perfect position, the bird is right there.‚Äù Gun-dog style is truly in the eyes of the beholder, and my eye prefers the old stan-dard of a straight line from the tip of the tail to the tip of the nose. It always evokes thoughts of generations past and of the great grouse dogs and hunters that went before us.

Fifth, I like a handsome, physically substantial dog, with females weighing from forty-five to sixty pounds and males from fifty-five to seventy pounds. I like dual-type setters, because in addition to hunting ability, I appreciate aesthetics. If I can have both, why settle for less?

Sixth, good grouse dogs know how to handle difficult, running birds. They should point, catwalk, point, and so on in a straight line, head up, keeping the exact same amount of scent in their nostrils. More scent will result in a bumped bird and less scent in an es-caped bird. This is another place




where a pensive temperament will serve the dog well. Burton Spiller wrote of an invisible string attached from the bird to the dog‚Äôs nose, pulling it along at exactly the same distance.

Seven, a grouse dog must have the instinct to retrieve and the disposition to ‚Äúhunt dead‚Äù indefinitely. With these instincts, a competent handler will be able to develop the dog into a determined find-er of downed birds. A pup that will pick up and carry objects will retrieve. Teaching a dog to complete retrieves and hunt dead is the job of the handler. The instincts to do so have been lost in many modern, competi-tive bloodlines. A real grouse dog does what it can to ensure that crippled birds are not lost.

These seven traits do not fully define what I look for in a grouse dog, but they are among the most important. My ideal candidate excels in three gener-al areas: hunting ability, confor-mation, and temperament. In picking a young pup from a lit-ter at seven weeks or so, I must

depend upon the breeding for hunting ability. Conformation can be scrutinized well enough to rule out undesirables and narrow the choice. From the re-maining few pups, the deciding factor will be temperament. The pensive temperament that I am looking for can be seen in the pup‚Äôs daily interaction with its littermates. When a scuffle is underway, the pup I want is the one that will sit and observe-not afraid-and when it sees some vulnerability will enter the fray to gain advantage-calm, thoughtful, controlled.

How do you find a good grouse-dog? First and foremost, seek people who are breed-ing real grouse-dog pups out of real grouse dogs, ones that actually hunt and produce birds for the gun. Ask for a demonstration of the sire and/or dam, and an explanation of their owner‚Äôs breeding philosophy. Keep looking un-til you find a situation where the humans involved inspire confidence and trust, and the dogs represent what your idea of a grouse dog is. Then, wait!

It is most important to pick the proper breeder and litter. If you have done so, the process of choosing an individual pup will be much more certain. You may be best served by picking to the middle of the litter in size and temperament, ruling out the smallest and largest, as well as, the most timid and most preco-cious. If you have found a good litter, this technique should serve you well.

Finally, raising a grouse-dog prospect is much like raising a young human athlete. Teach it the fundamentals of its sport, practice fair chase, and let the dog enjoy its time afield. If the talent is there, you and your pup will succeed. Great grouse dogs are the product of good genetics, good handling, and a lot of birds.

Weaver Reprinted with permission Copyrights Coun-trysport Press 2005

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Lyme Disease Awareness: Tips to protect yourself, family and pet

May is Lyme Disease Aware-ness month and a good time to re-visit methods of protection to keep yourself, family and pets protected from ticks in the com-ing spring/summer months.

40,000 cases of lyme disease are documented in the US alone every year and health experts are predicting 2013 to be an-other bad year. In fact, research-ers have already discovered another disease caused by the same tick that spreads Lyme disease – the deer tick. More: http://new.pitchengine.com/pitches/e975809a-619b-488a-a6da-d3ddc0227d31

Here are some helpful tick-prevention strategies to keep you, your family and pet pro-tected this summer:

1.) YOUR YARD: Ticks are not out in the middle of your lawn, they live where yards bor-der wooded areas, or anywhere it is shaded and there are leaves with high humidity. Place a lay-er of wood chips between your

grass yard and the woods edge. Ticks are attracted to the wood chips because of the shade and moisture it provides.

2.) TICK CHECKS: Do pe-riodic tick checks (on yourself, children and pets) and carefully remove any found. (Wear light colored clothing so ticks are easier to find.)

3.) OUTDOOR PURSUITS: When on a hike, bike, or walk try to remain in the center of a trail in order to minimize your exposure. Remember - ticks cannot fly, they crawl up. Avoid sitting directly on the ground, woodpiles or fallen logs - areas where ticks love to live.

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Breeder Contracts

Dear Dennis,

Recently I read your article about xxx Kennels and xxx xxxx. I had heard good things about xxx as well, and last spring purchased a dog from them. Our dog, Spot, is wonder-ful companion and has been a joy to have around the house and in the field. I’m writing to you however to share with you a side of xxx that is not shared in your article that I think you should also know about. My intent is not to slander xxxx as their reputation certainly can stand on it’s own merit, but our experience has been less than satisfying with xxx, and I really struggled with how we were treated by them after reading your article.

As I mentioned, we pur-chased our dog from xxx in the spring. Soon after we brought her home we noticed that she was having some bladder is-sues. We took her to the breed-er ’s veterinarian and went through a number of treat-ments to try and solve the problem, unfortunately to no avail. Spot’s trainer, suggested

we get a second opinion of the problem. Ultimately, the lab results and tests were referred to the University Veterinary School for evaluation. Spot was diagnosed with Eptopic Ereter which is a genetic trait defect. The diagnosis was confirmed by ours and the breeders Veteri-nary clinics. Spot was released from University today after yesterday’s surgery and the prognosis is very good.

After the initial diagnosis two weeks ago, my wife and I contacted xxx to explain the sit-uation to them. Our purpose in doing so was two fold: First to alert them to this genetic flaw in the dogs that they are breeding, and secondly to find out what if anything would be in a posi-tion to do for us with regard to warranting the dog. We felt that since we paid a premium for the dog, that xxx would stand behind their breeding process. Xxx refused to accept any responsibility for the dog, and would not entertain any options other than destroying the animal and giving us a new puppy! I was appalled at the

response and the callousness of their answer. Spot has become part of our family, how would we explain this to our young boys who have bonded with her for over 6 months? Not to mention that we have over $600 in training costs and our veteri-nary bills for this are in excess of $2,000. While we were not ex-pecting xxx to pay any portion of those bills, we did expect that they may concede all or part of the money that they charged us for the dog. Not only were they insensitive but they were down right rude.

Both the AKC and several local breeders including the females owner were shocked that xxx was not in a position to work with us on this.

The worst part was xxx’s apparent failure to acknowl-edge that the problem even existed! It was up to me to con-tact the females owner to let her know that continued breeding of the dog may result in a prob-lem and that she should talk to her vet. We also contacted the AKC to let them know that the problem existed. Xxx has con-tacted no one to our knowledge to notify them of this potential genetic issue. I find this very inconsistent with the message that your article sends.

At this point we are left with the decision of whether to commence legal action against

Breeder Contracts: Breeder & Puppy Owner Obligations

By Dennis Guldan




xxx for what we feel is their lack of standing behind their breed-ing, or to let things pass and just enjoy our pet for years to come. But I wanted you to know, as I am letting others who ask how our dealings with xxx have been, of our experience with xxxx Kennels.

Sincerely, Bob

Bob, One of the problems with buying any dog is the guarantees that come with the dog. Obviously xxx has a lot of litters each year. Out of the pure numbers there will be problems. They have a policy of replacing a dog that does not live up to the desired dog requested. This is the policy you both agreed upon when buying your pup, so there is no one to blame.

I believe one of the reasons breeders offer such a guaran-tee is because of exactly what you went through, what fam-ily in their right mind will put down a pet for what you went through. It puts the buyer in a bad position. But on the other hand you agreed to that. Xxx or any breeder does not want a ton of dogs coming back or putting down dogs... so that is how they have solved the situ-ation.. putting pressure on the new owner to accept one of two bad options.. but again, you knew this going in.

My wife wanted me to get a year old started dog instead of a puppy last year when I got Jenny. For reasons exactly like

you bring up and to get past the cost of puppy stage and the unknowns. I took Jenny in for a $250 vet bill the other day for an external cyst that she developed when she came into heat... It has since gone away but I could very easily been stuck with a $1000 bill. Would I have went back to the breeder? No, I would not have. Just as human beings get genetic ail-ments dogs will too.... life is a crap shoot. It may happen with the next breeding of this litter, it may never happen again.

As far as the way you were treated by xxx, they stood up to what they promised and you agreed on, to the letter. Do I wish they would have gone fur-ther.... yes.... would that mean they would be obligated to go further on any pup that had problems... I think the answer would also be yes.... the breeder does not want to go down that slippery slope, breeders are in business to sell dogs.... and it is a business.

I hope you can see that I can see both sides and am walking a thin line... your both right.... but you agreed to terms when you picked up the pup. Xxx of-fers older dogs that are past the unknown puppy stage, but you pay for that. The cost of a older started dog in this case would have been less than your vet bills and training. I am sorry you had problems.. I hope this rational helps... I pay those un-known vet bills too.... I know where from you speak... I hope in the end all turns out well. I hope you see I did not just blow

off your question... there is no good or easy answer.

Thanks, Dennis Guldan

Dennis Guldan. publisher of Bird Dog & Retriever News hails from New Brighton, MN, by way of Marshfield, WI .... and yes Jenny and Scooby are doing well.




Dogs & Life

“Oh the towering feeling” is part of the lyrics in the song “ On the Streets Where You Live” . The music is from the Musical “ My Fair Lady” which opened on Broadway in 1956. A few years later in Korea, as a young soldier, I was adjusting to life on the rice paddies north of Seoul. It was a time when new feelings in my life were being made each day. If I missed something there was a Company commander who would tell us all how we should feel daily.

What are feelings really? Feelings are emotions that you experience when you're happy,sad, angry, confused and more. Most of us take feelings for granted. New born babies have two the instant they are born, the fear of falling and of loud noises.

Okay.. how are you feeling right now? You had better as-sess it quickly surely someone will be asking you soon. Most feeling can be categorizes as good or bad.

Since the stage is set to ex-amine feelings let's take it into the hunting fray. Gads! What do we have here? Many feel-

ings we have fit nicely in this realm. However, there are other specific ones we have developed through participation. Some of these are: over and under vs pump or auto- loader shotguns; vest or a jacket;leather boots or rubber etc..With these selections in mind we may be impervious to our feelings. Let’s say you take an over and under for the first time into the grouse woods. You hit the first two that come up. The feeling is great, you ac-complished two things, this is the gun for you and you shot really well!

Using the perceived feeling in the moment above and look-ing back a few days later other things may enhance the total feeling. The weather was good, the cover was right and the dog pointed both birds. Now you have a memory feeling to lock in the hunting box in your mind..

You have created an ex-perience and feeling that you may spend a lifetime trying to replicate. This is the reason we trek into the wilderness and develop a passion so great.. we will return.

We must respect all peo-ple's feelings. That sounds good, but what if we don't know what they are? We will never know all the feelings of an individual. It's possible to glean out the ones that interest you. You did this when you found a hunting partner. He or she shares the same interests and values that you have.

Dogs have feelings, the Creator gave them a tail so they can show off! The eight to twelve week old pup coming home from the kennel has lim-ited feelings. They have been living with the “ milk factory” and their litter mates. Recently they started eating food from a dish.

Cold and heat, along with light and darkness plus certain noises have been established.

We need to understand that the hand-off has happened and we will shape the dogs feelings in the future.

This is a really important time. Everything we do and say to the pup is trying to be grasped. Golly the infor-mation is being thrown at it from every direction. Who are these people? Where am I? Their voices are loud then they are soft. What does this mean? They look at me and say “ Rocky come”... then they scoop me up just as I start to squat and the next thing they put me down on some prickly stuff outside... Be patient and give lots of love.

The FeelingBy Loyde Childs




When working with dogs they have feelings that portray their moods. Like us they have good days and bad. We have to recognize this and not be harsh with them when they make a mistake that they have done a hundred times before. Surly they are feeling bad, so make a quick correction and move on.

The joy for me is watch-ing the dogs when the guns come out, and the loading of the truck. Following this is the happy feeling of the rapid response when they jump into their kennels. When they are released in the field it's almost like they are smiling because the feeling is so over whelming.

Feelings are forged through our values and experiences... one of my special friends al-ways reminds us “ That old people have feelings too” !!

Loyde Childs

Marshall, Wisconsin




The Packer Connection

Due to my penchant for duck hunting a little old pond in my back yard called Lake Michigan, I take to big strong Labradors. But there IS some-thing about that moment when a pointing dog spins and locks up. Something about those wide canine eyes seems to say, “That bird is RIGHT HERE boss!”

Our story begins at one of those ubiquitous company morale meetings. If you guess that my mind was wander-ing and I was searching the rows for pretty faces I’d have to plead guilty, and only ask that you throw the noose over a high, stout limb, for I am far from tiny.

I’ve always felt that a face is something that one is pretty much stuck with, for good or ill, but a person’s body tells what kind of person he or she is…tells a story of all the things done, and those not done, during a lifetime. Something about her reminded me of a time, wow, 40 years ago, when the days were long with cattle chores, the horses were small and quick, and only thing be-tween me and Canada was a

barbed wire fence. I could pic-ture her sitting on a bale of hay, blue jeans, barefoot, a puppy in her lap, two more wandering below her toes, the entire scene lit orange by a sun sliding down the Western sky.

But suddenly everybody in that meeting room was stand-ing, so I decided I should prob-ably stand too. Our assignment was to find somebody in the organization we did not know and pair up for an exercise. I stood and watched people mill about, some of whom I knew well, and some I knew not at all.

“Do you want to be my part-ner?” She asked, appearing at my left shoulder. I did.

The speaker asked us to tell each other about somebody from the past, present or future that we wanted to meet and why. I expected her to come up with some denizen of pop cul-ture that I had never heard of, or at very best, perhaps somebody like Carrie Underwood. When she said, “Winston Churchill”, I was taken aback. “Self,” I told myself, “We have a real person here.”

Sometime in the next couple of weeks she asked me who had trained my hunting dog. As it

happened I had been training bird dogs for decades. She asked if I would give her a hand with hers. I would.

He was named after Donald Driver, a Green Bay Packer pos-sessed of a charming smile, or so I’m told. All I know is that Driver had run roughshod over my beloved Bruins for over a decade.

Donald the dog was a Vizs-la. This compact little hunting, pointing machine originated in the same hills as Attila, and your author. Colored like a cup of coffee with only a bit of cream, they are known for being able to run all day. Vizs-las are economically built for marathons.

I have seen a picture of Donald soon after he was born. There lay four or so chocolate colored bodies with little legs sprouting forth, and between two of those, a tiny form, no more than half the size of the others, slightly darker…little Donald.

Keslea’s Story: I had just gotten off work

on a Saturday and was head-ing towards the barn when our Vizsla Gypsie went into labor. I missed the first half. When I got home a few hours later she was still having puppies. My dad wanted to show them all to me and of course I wanted to see the little guys.

As he was showing me the puppies he found a sack of

Double D By Ted Clay and Keslea Kumbier




birthing material Gypsie must have overlooked. When my dad lifted it there was a puppy inside! Dad quickly opened the sack and tried to revive the limp puppy and after some ef-fort we got a few breaths out of him. We were naming all the puppies after the Green Bay Packers and this one was the little underdog, reminding me of Donald Driver before he reached the NFL. He was little but he was strong. We set him down by Gypsie’s face to introduce her to the puppy she didn’t real-ize she had. After all the puppies were born we let Gypsie relax and get use to them and eventually we went to bed ourselves.

The next day was when we realized how small he really was and how funny he looked. All of his limbs seems to stick out in a way that wasn’t normal, When they got older all the other puppies got their pug-like face wrinkles, but Donald didn’t have that, His eyes looked funny in his head. I always though he looked like a cute little alien. All of the other pup-pies were aggressive when it came to feeding time and Don-ald couldn’t get time to suckle. I was so worried about him I would find the best nipple and

hold him on it, making sure the other puppies couldn’t bump him off, they were all getting so chubby and my little Driver couldn’t gain weight.

When we got all their tails docked and dew claws removed a few days after they were born the breeder told us not to get attached to Donald because he wasn’t going to make it. Of

course I already was attached and we were going to prove them wrong. That’s when we started bottle feeding him and that’s when he knew he was spoiled. He was never in the huddle with the puppies. He always slept by himself. I felt

bad for him. They all looked so warm, plump, and comfortable and he was on the other side of their puppy pile all frail and lonely. Whenever anybody had the time he got wrapped up in a blanket and cuddled. My dad was the one who bottle fed him best.

My dad was pain all the time. He had worked as a

special educa-tion teacher and while breaking up an alterca-tion he ended up with a dam-aged neck, con-cuss ion , and damaged shoul-der. He suffered from constant migraines. Yet he was the one that got up at night to feed my little Donald. Gypsie began taking Donald from her “nest” in the l iving room through t h e k i t c h e n and all the way down the hall to my dad’s side of the bed. My dad fed Donald and

did all he could do to make Donald comfortable. Dad gave Donald life and Donald gave dad a new purpose in life.

After the a few weeks Don-ald was still excluded from all of the other puppies and we got used to having him upstairs




with us. Mom was saying that we weren’t going to keep him and that the only reason he wasn’t for sale yet was that we wanted to make sure he was out of the woods. Many people wanted him. All the other puppies were sold and he was growing into quite the little cutie. Every time my parents found a buyer I would cry until they told the people that they weren’t sure he was okay yet.

On the day all the puppies went home I had to work until noon. I lectured my dad before I left.

“Donald is not for sale, he better be here when I get back.” I said. When I got home and I didn’t see Donald I burst into tears. My dad tried playing it off like they had sold my Donald Driver but my mom quickly scolded him and told me to look in the doggie bed, There he was, all snuggled up and adorable.

We ended up keeping him. He was such a doll. He didn’t chew on things, he only peed in the house when he was mad at someone and he did his best not to bother momma Gypsie.

Gypsie did go through a stage though when she re-ally got sick of him. They would play out in the yard and she would run so fast that he couldn’t keep up. He would try and follow her but then she would turn around and run at him going full speed and run him over. He would cry his sad little puppy cries. It was a very mean thing for a mom to

do to her baby. He would limp around the house for the rest of the day.

That’s when we started having problems with his eyes. I thought maybe it was just a cold. I know their eyes can get goopy when they aren’t feeling well. Sometimes the discharge would be clear, sometimes it would be mucus. Many times his eyes were red and he could hardly open them,

A f -t e r a couple weeks w e agreed to take Donald to the vet and t h a t ’ s when I know it was se-r i o u s . The di-agnosis was bilateral eutropion, a semi- serious eye problem where the eyelids roll in and the hairs on their eyes are constantly rubbing directly on their eyes. Often this causes severe eye damage. If the condition is not fixed soon, blindness can occur.

Donald want though an $1000.00 procedure. Lasers cut out part of the eyelid so that the lid sat correctly on his little green eye balls, I was so happy he could see again that I didn’t mind that the vet bills wiped out my savings.

Now that Donald could see he became somewhat of a hellion. He ran away, and wanted to stop and say hello to everyone. Everybody in Roch-ester Wisconsin knew Donald. During walk somebody would call out, “Hey, there’s Donald Driver!

To burn off energy I took him swimming in the pond at the barn and I would take him out on the trails with my horse Chaser. When I rode he

would point birds and barn cats that hid in the tall grass. They were our “pretend field trials” and all three of us loved them. That’s when I know Donald could be an awesome hunting puppy. I just needed somebody to help me get started.

The first time I met Donald I found him a typical nine month old puppy; exuberant and full of energy. He ran the backyard with his mother Gypsie, disap-peared into the marsh which bordered the property, and appeared again. I gave Keslea




a few articles I had written in Wisconsin Outdoor Journal and Bird Dog News long ago. I also delivered a throwing dummy and some Pheasant scent.

Vizslas are what I call “slow developers”, which only means that they tend to stay puppies longer than many breeds. Forc-ing them early in the training process can be detrimental. We kept everything a game on that first visit.

During the 1970’s wild pheasants could still be found in numbers in Wisconsin. Their numbers have dwindled since. There are still pockets of good wild pheasant in the center of the state, but our little train-ing sessions would have to be fit into busy work schedules, so our second session was not much more than a walk through a public hunting ground.

Donald behaved well. I wanted Keslea to give all the commands, because I wanted the dog to respond to her, not me. Donald stayed in good range and inspected every thicket. Coming up a hill Don-ald suddenly stiffened into a solid point. I pulled the gun off my shoulder and walked ahead. There lay a recent pile of pheasant feathers from another hunter’s kill, perhaps a human, perhaps a coyote.

A couple of weeks later, Donald’s first actual point was memorable. Keslea and I had only the morning to hunt due to my need to scamper back to Milwaukee for business. We

were about done and heading back to my car along a walk path. Donald, 10 months old now, quartered ahead. He turned, tensed, and locked up. His point was solid, and unwavering.

“That bird is right here Boss!”

I took a few steps and a big old rooster boiled out. Keslea swung her pump gun and the bird dropped to the tall grass, wings beating a steady drum roll on the dried weeds. Kes beamed as she held her bird. I was praising Donald, who liked to stand on his hind legs and lick under my chin. He was still a puppy. Not long ago he was a long shot to even make it into this world. He still had a lot to learn, but there’s one thing nobody could say…

“Nobody can say you’re not a real bird dog now Donald!” I said.




Sport Not Just For Men

March 20 marks the first day of spring, and many people will soon begin planting and tending to their gardens. While humans love their gardens, they can actually be dangerous to our four-legged friends. To help keep your gar-den dog-friendly this spring, the American Kennel Club (AKC®) offers the following tips:

* Avoid using dangerous plants: It’s important to do re-search on the plants that you will be using in your garden. There are common flowers and plants that can be unsafe or even fatal for dogs. Some plants to avoid are Calla Lilies, Sago Palm, Aza-lea, and Rhododendron, among others. Be mindful of flowers and plants, such as roses, that have thorns.

* Be careful of pesticides: Pes-ticides used to control insects and weeds in your garden can be hazardous for your pup. Do not use pesticides with snail bait with metaldehyde and fly bait with methomyl. Be sure to follow direc-tions and be sure that pesticides are stored in a place where your dog cannot get to them.

* Designate a play area: Give your pup a designated area to play that is away from your garden. It’s a space where your dog can run around, burn some energy or even do some digging. Having this des-

ignated play area will help prevent your pup from causing damage to your garden.

* Establishing boundaries in your garden: To help keep Fido out the garden bed, you can use a fence or border. A low picket fence or a border using rocks or stones can help protect your garden. It’s best to use vocal commands and treats to help your dog distinguish between where your dog can and cannot go. Raised garden beds or paving a path in your garden us-ing brick or gravel can also help your dog distinguish boundaries.

AMERICAN KENNEL CLuB OFFERS TIPS ON

HOW TO PREvENT YOuR DOG FROM

DIGGING uP YOuR GARDEN

Have you planted your spring plants only to find that your dog has made a minefield out of your yard? The American Kennel Club (AKC®) notes that while certain breeds, terriers in particular, tend to dig more because it’s in their genes, dogs dig as an outlet for frustration when they are left alone outside in the backyard. Digging provides something to do when an active, intelligent dog is bored out of his mind.

“Dogs dig for a number of reasons,” said American Kennel Club® (AKC) Canine Good Citi-zen® Director and Certified Ap-plied Animal Behaviorist, Mary Burch, Ph.D. “It is a common issue that dog owners face, but it can be fixed with a little time and planning.”

Dr. Burch offers the following tips on why your dog is digging and how to help him stop.

What You Can Do* Providing mental stimula-

tion through daily play and train-ing sessions is the best thing you can do for a bored dog. The AKC Canine Good Citizen program is a great place to start by teaching your dog how to sit and stay down on command.

* Try making a digging pit in your yard that is basically an ac-ceptable place for your dog to dig. Burying bones or favorite toys will help your dog learn that this place is an approved area.

* When it is hot outside, dogs will dig to try and expose cool earth for them to lay on and lower their body temperature. You can avoid this by bringing your dog inside so that he doesn’t have to handle the heat on his own when it is very warm out. If you don’t want to give your dog access to your whole house while you’re gone, designate a climate con-trolled area with water and toys for your pooch to stay.

American Kennel Club Offers Tips On Dog-Friendly

Gardening




Shooting Range

The setting seemed more Great Plains than Alaska: rust-ing farm machinery backlit by a fiery sunset, barley fields rippling in golden swaths, the horizon a living canvas of geese and sandhill cranes whirling in noisy flocks. Yet to the south a mountain range marched, and the September breeze fresh off the Arctic Circle blew brittle and permafrost-cold. Those sub-arctic clues left no doubt. The loam be-neath my feet was a long, long way from North Dakota, Kansas or, really, anyplace else.

Awash in a mix of sunlight and long evening shadows, Sundance trotted out front, nose to the ground. A full day of hunting had taxed the little Brit-tany, though even now he remained

alert for one final covey. I brought up the rear, shotgun over one shoulder, thighs worn out from miles of walking.

The day had been good. I’d found solitude and broad spaces to hunt, luxuries never far away from we who live and wing-shoot in Alaska. More to the point, I’d come seeking a prairie connection. And beyond the geese and cranes and sun-

sets over g r a i n f i e l d s , I h a d f o u n d it in the wings of a n u n -l i k e l y g r a s s -l a n d bird.

***

N o t so long a g o , just be-yond the

fringes of written history, inte-rior Alaska was a vast prairie linked to the steppes, or grass-lands, of Eurasia. That con-nection was lost about 11,000 years ago when the ice of the last glacial age, the Pleistocene, dissolved in a global warming trend and raised sea levels 300 feet or more.

Scientists who sift peats to collect and study pollens and silts accumulated over the eons tell us that, prior to the warming trend, interior Alaska was – even more than today – a land of extremes, a dry country of freezing winters and torrid summers. Meanwhile, more evidence gathered in Alaska and eastern Siberia points to the prehistoric existence of the Bering Land Bridge, a connec-tion that once linked Eurasia and North America, providing ready passage for grassland animals and plants. In common to both continents are discov-eries of bones, tusks and, on rare occasions, the bodies of Ice Age creatures deep-frozen in remarkable – even edible – condition.

Today the Interior is a mas-sive basin drained by arterial rivers such as the Yukon, Ta-nana, and Nenana. The basin is cradled to the south by the Alaska Range and to the north by the Brooks Range, the north-ernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains. Travel into the high country on either side, where alpine valleys twist into remote box-canyons, and it is possible to feel you’ve stepped far back in time. Ice Age winds still

Little Grouse on the PrairieAlaska’s Bird Hunters Enjoy an Ice Age

LeftoverBy Ken Marsh

Sundance with an Interior Alaska sharp-tail grouse. Ken Marsh photo.




moan through these places and, in your mind, they can resurrect the woolly mammoths, Pleisto-cene horses and steppe bison that once roamed here.

Ultimately, the Pleistocene’s end was marked by climatic changes and the land evolved accordingly. Shrubs and boreal forests began to appear and, over time, animals of the van-ishing grasslands that could not adapt died out. Today, only remnant survivors persist. Moose, Dall sheep, and Ameri-can bison (thought to be direct descendants of the steppe bison that moved south to populate the steppes – or Great Plains – of what is now the Lower 48) are examples of Pleistocene leftovers.

And so I had come to the Delta area east of Fairbanks, shotgun in hand and bird dog in tow, in search of an evolution-ary holdout, a creature perhaps humbler than a bison, though to hard-bitten wing-shooters no less intriguing. I’d come to hunt a vestige bird, a prai-rie grouse whose origins can be traced to Alaska’s bygone steppes. Commonly associated with the fields and dry gullies of the American West, the bird I pursued was the sharp-tailed grouse.

***

In camp that night , I watched Sundance sleep, his legs twitching in fitful spasms while out in the fields, not far beyond the campfire glow, gangs of coyotes yipped. If bird dogs can dream – and I believe

that they can – the Brittany was almost certainly reliving the day, envisioning the fields and burns and coveys of sharptails that cackled and sailed away like fleeting prayers on polka-dotted wings.

We’d gotten into them early in the day along an old fire road traversing a burn. Knee-high wild rose and berry shrubs flanked the road, offering likely cover and forage for adaptable

charred spruces. The country was too exposed for forest grouse – ruffed and spruce grouse share the region – so there was no mistaking what made those tracks. Nose low, Sundance slipped into the shrubs, focused on a scent, moving in fast, ever-tightening circles. I checked my shotgun, a blonde-stocked SKB 20-gauge. The air seemed suddenly elec-tric. I brought the gun to port arms, ready; that little Brittany was not one to lie.

Abruptly, Sundance stopped and turned 90 degrees toward the thick cover. A lone grouse launched on thumping wings. It was a straight-away shot and I never heard the report; just felt my heart beat once, then saw the puff of brown and white feathers.

Sundance fetched the bird and, before the smell of burned powder cleared, I was examin-ing those distinctive polka-dotted wings and that wispy, pointed tail. The yellow combs arched over liquid-brown eyes. The proof was unequivocal: We had found the prairie grouse. Right there in the heart of sub-arctic Alaska.

***

Sharptails thrive in places like the Yellowstone country of western Montana where I’ve hunted them on past occa-sions. Set in the shadow of the Absaroka Range, the autumn air frosty and spiced with sage, the cheat-grass hills form a high-prairie region that prob-ably resembles Alaska’s Ice Age

Hunting in the Delta Junction Area of Interior

Alaska. Ken Marsh photo.

grassland grouse. Then, in the yellow dust atop the hoof prints of a bison herd, I found a set of three-toed, chicken-like tracks.

Beyond the rose and berry shrubs, the burn was wide open, overgrown with grasses and sparsely punctuated by the dead, spine-like trunks of




steppes.

Interestingly, paleontolo-gists who ply interior Alaska soils for Ice Age fossils have documented the presence of grassland birds that are likely ancestors of, if not direct pre-cursors, of today’s sharptail grouse and willow ptarmi-gan. In a fascinating chapter of Interior Alaska: A Journey Through Time, scientists R. Dale and Mary Lee Guthrie write: “Occasionally, pebbles of polished white quartz turn up in the wash screens. For a long time they remained a mys-tery.” It took some time before experts solved the puzzle. “The pebbles,” write the Guthries, “turned out to be gizzard stones of Pleistocene grouse and ptar-migan.”

In Alaska today, sharp-tailed grouse are found in the Yukon River Valley from the Canada border to Holy Cross. Scattered populations appear in the upper regions of the Koyu-kuk, Kuskokwim and Copper river valleys.

Although the broad steppes where they once flourished have largely grown into for-ests, the birds survive in mar-ginal habitats. They prefer open spaces such as old burns, spruce bogs, manmade clear-ings and fields – places similar as possible to their prehistoric grasslands. Look for them near clearings bordered by cover of-fering cranberries, blueberries and rose hips. The birds feed on these berries and, early in the fall, range into the fields,

burns and meadows to stuff themselves on grasshoppers and other insects. Sharptails can also be found in semi-open areas of stunted spruce and tundra where bugs and berries are prevalent.

Like the prairie chickens, sage grouse, and sharptails of the Great Plains, Alaska sharp-tails gather in certain areas each spring for breeding. These places, called leks, are in open areas where males attract mates by dancing, fluttering their wings and inflating yellow-green sacks on their chests that resemble yolks fried sunny-side up.

The area I hunted – it’s been several years ago now – was the site of a 1978 state-sponsored agricultural project in which nearly 60,000 acres of timber were cleared for the production of barley. For various reasons, many of the farms failed, and the fields abandoned. Walking along the overgrown wind-rows, it was hard not to feel in the empty barns and collaps-ing fences a haunting sense of heartbreak.

Not all of the barley opera-tions have gone the way of the mammoth. Some have held on while others have been re-vived. Along the way, bison and coyotes – all prairie denizens – have generally prospered. Though it hasn’t always been that way.

I learned several years ago in an interview with state wild-life biologist Ken Taylor (since

retired) that Alaska’s native wood bison, direct descendants of Ice Age populations, died out as recently as 450 years ago. Taylor’s calculations were based on radiocarbon samples taken from the Interior. “I sus-pect if we had a larger sample size we would have samples that are even more recent than that,” Taylor told me.

Even more intriguing are the stories still passed on among lo-cal Athabascans. “We do have some indications from some of the villages that there is an oral history of people hunting bi-son,” Taylor said. “We’ve talked to some of the elders (and) they remember their distant rela-tives having done it and passed the stories down. And most oral histories are probably less than 400 years old.”

The roughly 900 Plains bison roaming interior Alaska today were introduced from Montana in 1928. Like the sharptailed grouse, natural habitat is lim-ited to open river plains, burns and meadows of grasses, vetch and sedges. But the Delta barley project expanded habitat for the bison, still prairie creatures at heart. And at the same time, the micro-grassland biome cleared by the hard work of hopeful settlers benefited sharptails in ways that delight upland sportsmen.

***




After that first sharptail, Sundance and I walked for per-haps three miles along the road through the burn. The overcast September day had grown warm, the walking easy. At one point, the dog put up a pair of birds that I missed cleanly with both barrels. I managed to take one of them on a follow-up flush in the burn where fallen timber created a difficult ob-stacle course that forced the dog to crawl, snuffling, and me to high-step awkwardly.

By early afternoon, we re-turned to camp to rest and plan the rest of the day. There were plenty of old fields around to hunt, places edged with berries and cover needed to sustain large numbers of birds. Meanwhile, the nearby Tanana Hills promised good hunting for ruffed and spruce grouse, birds of a different feather that promised their own shooting challenges.

As it turned out, though, the sharptails weren’t through with us yet.

I was sitting, finishing a sandwich with Sundance curled up nearby, resting his yellow Brittany eyes, when I looked up and saw them. Not 30 feet away, over ground we had just hunted, a covey of a dozen or more sharptails appeared, ten-tatively poking their heads out of the grass and shrubs beside the road.

I picked up my shotgun. Sundance popped up from his bed, ready in an instant. Within

a half-dozen steps the air was filled with drumming wings and grouse cackles. Seconds later, as birds sailed over the burn in all directions, Sundance was retrieving the two I had dropped.

By the fire that night, Sun-dance stopped twitching and the coyotes in the fields quit yipping. The sky cleared, the

stars silver and burning as they did 15,000 years ago when inte-rior Alaska was a place of great, furry elephants. From their high places, those stars have seen a lot of changes down here. But as I crawled into my sleep-ing bag, it was good to know that a few things, particularly little things that cackle and fly on polka-dotted wings, remain very much the same.

Ken Marsh has lived in Alaska since shortly after the last Ice Age and has been fish-ing and hunting the South-central region since before the

Parks Highway was built. He has never actually seen a live woolly mammoth and today works as the information officer for the Division of Sport Fish in Anchorage.

Sundance and sharptails. Ken Marsh photo.




News from the Non-profits

DuCKS uNLIMITED

Du recognizes four states for significant

financial contributionsDuring its annual Wetland

Conservat ion Achievement Awards breakfast last week, Ducks Unlimited recognized four state agencies for significant invest-ments toward conserving water-fowl breeding habitat in Canada.

The program to provide state support for waterfowl breeding habitat projects in Canada was ini-tiated by Ducks Unlimited as one of the first international public/private partnerships to support migratory bird conservation. After the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) was signed in 1986, the Associa-tion of Fish and Wildlife Agencies became a lead partner to help the states achieve the NAWMP goals. Contributions from states are matched by DU Inc. and DU Canada, as well as the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA).

“The importance of state grants contributions to Canadian habitat conservation and restoration proj-ects cannot be overstated,” said Pat Kehoe, DU Canada’s direc-tor of international partnerships. “Individual state contributions are combined with other state contributions, matched dollar for dollar by DU Inc. and DU Canada, and then used as match for North American Wetlands Conservation Act grants.”

Participating states have con-

tributed more than $75 million to improve Canadian waterfowl habitat. A successful waterfowl nesting effort in Canada is in-strumental in strong migrating populations in the U.S. each year.

The state agencies recognized during the breakfast were:

• Illinois Department of Natural Resources for a cumula-tive contribution of $10 million

• Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for a cumu-lative contribution of $10 million

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for a cumula-tive contribution of $5 million

• Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for a cumulative con-tribution of $1 million

“This program started in 1965 as one of the very first internation-al public-private partnerships to support migratory bird conserva-tion,” said DU Chief Conservation Officer Paul Schmidt. “Since the passage of NAWCA in 1989, this program has taken on added sig-nificance as an important source of non-federal U.S. matching funds for habitat conservation projects in Canada, and the effort has been led by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. This is a truly continental partnership that helps form the bedrock of the NAWMP.”

To view a complete list of the 2013 Wetland Conservation Achievement Award winners, please visit www.ducks.org.

Du recognizes contributions

to wetlands and waterfowl conservation

Ducks Unlimited announced today the winners of the 2013 Wetland Conservation Achieve-ment Awards during the 78th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Confer-ence, held in Arlington, Va., at the Crystal Gateway Hyatt.

DU’s 2013 Wetland Conserva-tion Achievement Awards were presented in six categories and recognized individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the conservation and restora-tion of North America’s wetlands and waterfowl. DU Chief Con-servation Officer Paul Schmidt presented the awards. This year’s winners are:

• Senior Federal Official: Senator Debbie Stabenow, U.S. senator from Michigan

• Federal Agency: Dr. Byron “Ken” Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, now with The Wildlife Society

• State/Provincial Agency: Garrett Graves, State of Louisi-ana’s Coastal Protection and Res-toration Authority

• Research / Technical: Dr. James D. Nichols, U.S. Geological Survey

• Communications: John Pollmann, contributor to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader

• Conservation / Private Citizen: Robert “Bob” Zorb

“These winners are a true testament to hard work and de-termination, and serve as perfect examples of people from various walks of life who have a shared passion for wetlands and water-fowl conservation,” Schmidt said.




“DU is honored to recognize their work and hopes their achieve-ments inspire others to follow suit.”

To read more about the indi-vidual winners, visit www.ducks.org.

DEDICATION PLANNED AT

HANSEN WATERFOWL PRODuCTION AREA

The public is invited to the dedication of the new addition to Hansen Waterfowl Production Area at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 15. The new 320-acre tract, which includes 185 wetland acres, in-creases the size of Hansen WPA and allows the wetland areas to be more effectively managed for waterfowl and wildlife habitat.

Ducks Unlimited purchased the site from a willing seller in 2008 with funds from the Ne-braska Environmental Trust and Ducks Unlimited supporters. DU and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service collaborated to restore the wetlands and re-seed the upland with native grasses. The USFWS acquired the property from DU’s Wetlands America Trust with Land and Water Conservation funds obtained with the help of former U.S. Senator Ben Nelson.

Waterfowl Production Areas, including Hansen WPA, are pub-licly owned lands, and are gener-ally open to a variety of outdoor recreation during daylight hours, including wildlife observation, photography, hiking, and hunting during legal hunting seasons.

To reach Hansen WPA from Highway 6 in Sutton, drive 10.5 miles south on Road X. Or, from Shickley, drive 7 miles west on Highway 74, then 1.5 miles north on Road X.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Ducks Unlimited are two of the many partners in the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, a partnership of government agen-cies, non-government organiza-tions, and individuals working together to improve and protect habitat in the Rainwater Basin and Nebraska’s mixed-grass prairies. More information is at rwbjv.org.

PHEASANTS FOREvER

PF HIRES FIRST MINNESOTA

COORDINATING WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTNELSON TO PROvIDE COORDINATION AND PROGRAM DELIvERY

FOR PRAIRIES AND GRASSLAND HABITATS IN SW

MINNESOTA.Pheasants Forever (PF) an-

nounces the hiring of Emilee Nel-son of Lanesboro, Minn. as its first coordinating wildlife biologist in the state. The position will focus on the Lac Qui Parle core area and Prairie Coteau landscapes and will deliver grassland con-servation priorities that lie within the recently signed Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan. This is a PF partnership position in cooperation with the Minnesota DNR, Lyon County SWCD, and the Minnesota Prairie Plan Work-ing Group.

The Minnesota Prairie Conser-vation Plan provides a roadmap for protecting, restoring and en-hancing Minnesota’s most altered ecosystem, the Northern Tallgrass Prairie. By working together with landowners and partners,

this plan outlines an approach to sustain functional grasslands and prairies in agricultural regions of western and southern Minnesota.

“The Minnesota DNR is ex-cited to see more effort in the challenge to conserve our prairies and grasslands, and are delighted to have Ms. Nelson as a conserva-tion partner,” said Tom Landwehr, Minnesota DNR commissioner. “This is step one in supporting the implementation of the Prairie Plan in Minnesota. We look forward to an even more coordinated effort to protect our precious remaining remnant prairies, while putting the habitat pieces back together on the landscape in an effort to have functioning grassland systems.”

A Minnesota native, Nelson grew up in Minneapolis where she took every opportunity to explore the woods and spend time fishing in the boat at the family cabin in Otter Tail County. An avid hunter and fisher, Nelson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2011 with a B.S. in Wildlife, Fish-eries and Conservation Biology. Prior to joining Pheasants Forever, Nelson worked as a project spe-cialist with the Minnesota DNR working on trout stream ease-ments baseline documentation and monitoring in SE Minnesota.

“Collaborative partnerships are key to working with private landowners delivering programs to people,” says Matt Holland, Pheasants Forever director of grant development. “Coordi-nation of the people, science, programs and professionals to implement aspects of our Prairie Plan is an exciting opportunity for realizing grassland habitat.”

Pheasants Forever signed on as a partner in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan in Au-gust of 2012, committing to assist




in the protection, restoration and enhancement of the prairies and grasslands that provide critical habitat for pheasants and other grassland birds and wildlife.

Nelson will be located in Mar-shall, Minn. and office at the Lyon County SWCD. She can be contact-ed by email or at (507) 430 8499. For more information regarding the Minnesota Prairie Conserva-tion Plan, go visit the Plan’s web-site or contact Matt Holland.

Pheasants Forever Chapters Raise $2.4 Million for Youth Shooting Sports

23,316 youth participated in the outdoors and shooting sports through PF’s Adopt-A-Team pro-gram

Pheasants Forever (PF) and Quail Forever (QF) are proud to announce the organization’s FOR-EVER Shooting Sports “Adopt-A-Team” partnership between PF or QF chapters and their local youth scholastic or club shooting teams

has raised over $2.4 million for the teams’ Mid-wayUSA Founda-tion endowment trusts.

Through this unique partner-ship, which was started in Febru-ary of 2012, a PF or QF chapter and youth com-petitive shooting team partner to raise funds either through raffles, donations or fun-draisers. Funds raised are con-tributed to the team’s Midwa-

yUSA Foundation endowment trust. Established in each team’s name, the team is able to use the interest from its endowment trust to help achieve sustainable, com-prehensive funding for shooting sports programs. Chapters par-ticipating in the program adopt-ed 402 youth scholastic or club shooting teams from across the country, supporting 23,316 youth involved in the outdoors and shooting sports.

“This was an out-standing success made possible by the chapters and teams that worked together to accomplish this triumph for the fu-ture of shooting sports programs,” says John Linquist, Pheasants For-ever’s FOREVER Shoot-ing Sports coordinator. “These teams now have a financial blanket that can be used for supplies, travel and other day-to-day expenses incurred

through competition. None of this would have been possible without the unyielding generosity of Larry and Brenda Potterfield of MidwayUSA, whose belief in the youth of today will pay dividends for future outdoorspeople.”

Pheasants Forever’s FOREVER Shooting Sports program utilizes research-based recruitment and retention strategies to introduce up to 20,000 individuals annually to shooting sports through a vari-ety of community-based programs and events.

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever chapters hold more than 1,000 youth events annually, in-troducing over 45,000 youth to the outdoors and shooting sports. For more information, please contact John Linquist at (712) 754-3221 or Email John.

Pheasants Forever, including its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat con-servation. Pheasants Forever and



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comQuail Forever have more than 135,000 members and 720 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empow-ered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent, the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grass-roots structure.

Rehan Nana (651) 209-4973

STEARNS COuNTY PHEASANTS FOREvER

NAMED MINN. CHAPTER OF THE

YEARCHAPTER MEMBERS ALSO RECOGNIzED WITH INDIvIDuAL

HONORSThe Stearns County Pheasants

Forever (SCPF) chapter was recog-nized as the Minnesota Chapter of the Year by Pheasants Forever (PF) at its annual state meeting held February 16th in conjunction with National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic 2013. This honor recognizes a Minnesota chapter that is balanced in its approach to accomplishing the mission of Pheasants Forever and excels in all aspects of being a chapter.

In addition to the Minnesota Chapter of the Year, SCPF received recognition for spending $3 mil-lion on total habitat and conser-vation expenditures since their inception in 1983. Stearns County is only the third chapter in the nation to earn this honor. Since their inception, SCPF and partners helped purchase 33 land parcels accounting for almost 4,200 acres which are now protected and open to public hunting and outdoor recreation in Stearns County.

“The Stearns County PF chapter does it all,” stated Eran Sandquist, Pheasants Forever regional wildlife biologist. “They throw a great fundraising banquet and leverage those locally raised dollars to bring more resources for the organization’s local habi-tat mission. Combined with their rich history of being the first PF chapter to create a newsletter, a sponsorship program, and receive a Federal Small North American Wetland Conservation Grant, the Stearns County PF chapter provides leadership to the entire state on what is possible for an individual chapter to accomplish.”

2012 Stearns County accom-plishments include:

• Participated and volunteered for the Pheasants Forever Minnesota State Con-vention and District Meetings

• Supported and lobbied for increased state and federal con-servation policy

• Enhanced habi-tat management on public lands

• Offered and supported multiple area youth conser-vation events, youth mentored hunts and supported scholastic shooting teams

• The first chapter to partner with Minnesota Envi-ronment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, USDA – NRCS, Min-nesota DNR, Minnesota BWSR, and Stearns SWCD in funding a Pheasants Forever Farm Bill Wild-life Biologist to Stearns County. This biologist’s role is to assist landowners in designing, devel-oping, and funding habitat im-

provements on private lands. Two of the chapter’s commit-

tee members were also recognized at Saturday’s awards banquet. Charlie Opitz was the recipient of Pheasants Forever’s Dedica-tion Award, andRalph Feld was inducted to the Pheasants For-ever’s Long Spur Society for being instrumental in the creation or continuation of the chapter and playing an essential role in the development of chapter programs.

“Stearns County PF is fortu-nate to have a passionate group of committee members,” said Steve Sellnow, SCPF chapter president. “We want to thank all the volun-teers, spouses, banquet attendees,

and sponsors who have enabled us to achieve these milestones; without their support, none of this would be possible.”

The Stearns County Pheas-ants chapter was the first chapter formed in 1983, just one year after Pheasants Forever was founded.




News From The AKC

Chairman’s Report February 2013

-- Relentless Positive Action --

In my August Chairman’s Report, I introduced the concept of “relentless positive action” as a driving force in delivering new programs, new events, and new outreach. That philosophy is one that most certainly drives our best breeders in their determined quest for constantly improving their lines, and subsequently, their breeds. Like those breed-ers, the American Kennel Club is on a determined quest for improvement – in events, and subsequently, our sport.

To paraphrase former New York Mayor Ed Koch, “How are we doing?

What’s Working

The Grand Champion title was launched May 12, 2010. The entire logic behind the pro-gram was an understanding that a large number of owners wanted to continue to compete in conformation after achieving a Champion title on their dogs, but they did not want to actively campaign their dog for a national ranking. We believed the Grand Champion program would offer those exhibitors a meaningful goal in continuing to show their dogs and, therefore, help entries at shows. In the year prior to the launch (2009), the Best of Breed class accounted for almost

374,000 entries. In the first full year of Grand Champion com-petition (2011), Best of Breed en-tries increased by almost 78,000 entries. Last year, the Best of Breed class accounted for almost 476,000 entries, an increase of 102,000 over the base year. The only explanation for this increase in entries is the Grand Champion program; there is no doubt the positive impact this new pro-gram is having on entries and the finances of our clubs. We believe the National Owner-Handler Series will continue to build Best of Breed entries.

The 4-6 Month Beginner Pup-py Competition – which provides the opportunity for training, so-cialization and an introduction to conformation – became an approved sanctioned event on July 3, 2012. There were 96 Begin-ner Puppy events last year with a total entry of 2,171 puppies. The 4-6 Month Beginner Puppy Competition is an excellent pub-lic outreach program to bring new exhibitors and new dogs into Conformation. I encourage every club to consider offering this event.

The Beginner Novice optional titling class – a very popular combination of basic obedience and rally – seems to be having a positive impact on Obedience entries, which are up almost 7,300 entries for 2012. Not only are the Beginner Novice classes up, but all obedience regular and

optional classes are seeing posi-tive growth.

The Coursing Ability Test (CAT) – a fun and healthy event modeled after lure coursing that is open to all adult dogs - is at-tracting a following. While Lure Coursing did not exhibit growth in 2012, the CAT program added more than 6,000 entries.

Agility continues to grow and we believe the Time 2 Beat Agility Class, a unique, “hybrid” titling class, is having impact on that growth. Last year, Agility – our second largest sport - increased entries by more than 117,000.

The AKC Canine Partners program, launched in 2009, con-tinues to grow and bring new exhibitors and dog lovers into the world of AKC. Last year, these dogs and their owners, many coming from 4-H clubs, entered our events more than 40,000 times.

What Are We Working On?

The 2012 Conformation entry statistics reveal two other inter-esting trends. The number of new dogs being exhibited has re-mained basically constant at 41% of the total dogs exhibited. How-ever, it appears people might be waiting until their dogs are more competitive before beginning to show them – most likely a result of the economic state of the na-tion. Creating additional oppor-tunities to show young dogs is a priority for us. Fortunately, we are currently vetting a unique concept conceived by an active breeder/exhibitor/judge that ap-




pears to hold significant promise for the future.

Next month in Tulsa the AKC is hosting the first ever AKC Rally® National Competition in conjunction with the Obedience and Agility National Champion-ships. This event will help bring recognition to those owners and dogs that train for and enjoy the sport of Rally.

AKC My Dog Can Do That!® has proven to be extremely suc-cessful in bringing new dogs and new exhibitors to experience Agility and Rally. About half the participants are Conformation people who were interested in learning about a new sport and half were people who had never been to a dog show. We are de-veloping a program to make it easier for clubs to activate this program locally.

The success of Beginner Pup-py and My Dog Can Do That! are perfect examples of using the AKC registrant database to ben-efit clubs, owners, and their dogs. We will continue to find ways to use this powerful tool in support of our clubs and their events.

Our continued success in events depends on our contin-ued ability to innovate new pro-grams. AKC Staff is committed to doing just that. While not every program will be successful, the spirit of “relentless positive ac-tion” requires that we stay open to new ideas and are willing to risk the occasional failure.

Our success also depends on a bit of relentless positive com-munication. Now that you know

some of our success stories, let’s all help spread the word. As in all sports, momentum is part of the game.

Your comments and sugges-tion are most welcome [email protected].

Sincerely, Alan Kalter Chair-man

Chairman’s Report March 2013

-- Defending Our Rights --

For years, animal rights ex-tremists have focused on attack-ing the health of purebred dogs based on what they determined were improper breeding pro-grams, and have indiscriminately discredited dog breeders with unsupported anecdotal stories as opposed to facts. We all know the unsubstantiated accusations all too well.

Unfortunately, the rather gullible media simply accepted these allegations without objec-tive investigation. A case in point is the untruthful story about Bull-dogs published in the New York Times Magazine. Interestingly, while we supplied significant fac-tual information about the health of Bulldogs, as did the Bulldog Club of America, the article was selective – which is just a nice word for “biased” - in the utiliza-tion of those facts. In the end, the story was simply propaganda, not journalism.

But starting last year, there was a subtle, yet very noticeable shift in the communication tactics of the two largest animal rights organizations. Previously, for

the most part, they had practiced a strategy of either ignoring or dismissing the AKC. Simply put, they did not see us as an orga-nization of any concern to them in their quest to eliminate dog ownership through the elimina-tion of breeders. As they have made very clear, their stated goal is “no new puppies” – a goal they intend to accomplish through legislation and ballot initiatives to mandate spay/neuter and restrict breeders to the point of oblivion.

So, what changed? We did. In the past few years all of us - you, your clubs, and the AKC - have become more aggressive, more organized, more vocal, and more visible in legislative matters.

The tipping point last year ap-pears to have been our proactive approach to the proposed APHIS rule changes, which included both a well-documented, reasonable, and thorough review of all the is-sues with suggestions to make the intent of the regulatory changes achievable without unnecessarily damaging hobby breeders, and a petition of support signed by over 75,000 concerned dog owners. Our response to APHIS caught the extremists completely by surprise and sent them into a whirlwind of activity that amounted to noth-ing. Most likely, their evaluation after the storm was that the AKC needed much greater attention from them.

But the proactive plan around the APHIS rule changes was just the tip of the spear the AR extremists have been feeling of late. The AKC Legislative De-




partment, led by the pleasantly indomitable Sheila Goffe, has made our presence, knowledge, and commitment felt on a myriad of legislative issues around the country. Last year, Sheila’s de-partment monitored more than 1,500 pieces of legislation. Con-trary to what the AR extremists would have people believe, we are a respected resource in dog legislation for legislators and governmental organizations charged with animal care over-sight. Our Care and Conditions of Dogs Policy is accepted as an intelligent and fair standard. Our careful analysis of proposed legislation helps reveal unrea-sonable requirements buried in a bill that would make it virtu-ally impossible for a legislator’s constituents to be in compliance. Our individual financial support of legislators’ campaigns has made new and strong friends for the AKC and our mission. And your clubs, and the hard-working AKC legislative liaisons at both the state and local levels, have made significant inroads in protecting our rights to own and breed our dogs responsibly.

Today, the AKC is neither being ignored nor dismissed by the AR extremists. Instead, those organizations are now attacking us using the same propaganda tactics of lies and innuendo. I believe our position as squarely in the sights of the AR extremists is a status and a challenge we should accept with resolve and great pride.

As a former ad guy, I am reminded of a 1915 magazine ad for Cadillac considered one of

the greatest print ads of all time. It only ran once - in the Saturday Evening Post. I believe that ad, titled “The Penalty of Leader-ship,” captures the essence of the American Kennel Club and the challenges we face from AR extremists. The ad explains why companies that honor “standards of excellence” become “targets of the envious.”

Here are a few pertinent sen-tences:

“In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone. If he achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging.

The leader is assailed because he is the leader. The follower seeks to depreciate and to de-stroy. If the leader truly leads, he remains - the leader.”

How are we leading in this fight for our rights?

First, we are proactively tak-ing our messages of the Good Things We Do (the Parent Club rescue network, AKC kennel inspections, AKC CAR, and our collective commitment to improving the health of dogs) to the public; we are telling the facts about purpose-bred dogs and the desirability of owning a well-bred purebred as the family

dog; and we are telling the stories of the passionate commitment of our breeders to protect, preserve, and improve purebred dogs. We are doing that through a combi-nation of an aggressive public relations strategy utilizing every media opportunity imaginable to get our story told correctly and in its entirety. In addition, we now have an expert in social media, which gives us the ability to tell the narrative of the AKC throughout the world of social media. For the first time, we will have a constant and consistent platform to reach the general public every day.

Second, we will always be aggressive in responding to AR propaganda posing as media stories. The difference in our re-sponse to the Bulldog story and the response to the New York Times attack on the AKC is a demonstration of our new com-mitment to act quickly, broadly and emphatically.

While the cost to have a day-in and day-out public outreach program and an immediate re-sponse program is significant, we can afford it. In fact, we can’t afford not to have it.

With Churchill as inspiration, our mantra now is this: we will fight with growing confidence and growing strength; we will defend our rights, whatever the cost may be; and we will never stop fighting.

Your comments and suggestion are most welcome [email protected].

Sincerely, Alan Kalter Chair-man




News from the Enemy Camps & the Good Guys

NSSF Issues Statement on Connecticut

Legislative ProposalsThe National Shooting

Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the fire-arms and ammunition industry, issued the following statement today:

The firearms industry has a long history in Connecticut and to this day has a sizeable eco-nomic presence and workforce in the Constitution State. We are disappointed therefore that the General Assembly’s Task Force could not reach a bipartisan agreement on proposals to pre-vent future violence involving the criminal misuse of firearms.

NSSF agrees with sugges-tions that the focus should be to keep firearms out of the wrong hands, but an outright ban of the most popular semiauto-matic rifle in the United States today, as some are suggesting, for what are essentially cos-metic reasons would make no one safer and is unfair to the millions of people who have purchased them legally and use them responsibly for hunt-ing, shooting competition and home defense. It also holds the real prospect of affecting em-ployment in our state because underlying issues go deeper than whether manufacturing exemptions would be issued. We will review all proposals in

more detail and will continue to be a resource to achieve our common goal of a safer Con-necticut.

Sportsmen’s Activity Report: States Benefit

from Economic Impact of Hunting

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a major new report documenting the importance of hunting activities to the U.S. economy. NSSF is the trade as-sociation for the firearms, am-munition, hunting and shoot-ing sports industry.

The report, Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation, provides de-tailed information on 40-plus categories of U.S. hunting-re-lated expenditures, which grew 55 percent, as well as state-by-state statistics for number of hunters, retail sales, taxes and jobs. The report notes an overall nine percent increase in hunting participation between 2006 and 2011. The money hunters spent in 2011 resulted in $87 billion being added to the nation’s economy and supported more than 680,000 jobs nationally.

“The major growth in spending by hunters is good news for businesses throughout the country, particularly small businesses in rural areas,” said NSSF President and CEO Steve Sanetti.

Beyond their impact on businesses and local econo-mies, sportsmen are the lead-ers in protecting wildlife and habitats. When you combine license and stamp fees, excise taxes on hunting equipment and membership contributions to conservation organizations, hunters contribute more than $1.6 billion annually to conser-vation.

“Hunters are without peer when it comes to funding the perpetuation and conservation of wildlife and natural habi-tats,” said Sanetti.

Read Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Con-servation or view the report as a printable PDF.

To request hard copies of the report, email Jim Curcuruto at [email protected] (limited quantity available).

Federally-Licensed Firearms Retailers

in New Survey Overwhelmingly Oppose

‘universal Background Checks’

An online survey of federal-licensed firearms retailers con-ducted this week by the Nation-al Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, reveals that those who would be on the front line of implementing what is touted as “universal back-ground checks” have serious concerns both about whether such proposals would work as well as the potential negative effects on their businesses.




Asked whether they sup-ported or opposed “universal background checks,” 85.7 per-cent of the responding fire-arms retailers said that they opposed them. To the question of whether they believed that such legislation would prevent criminals from obtaining fire-arms, a nearly unanimous 95.7 percent said no.

In addition, the retailers reported that that they feared these proposals would result in higher regulatory and ad-ditional record-keeping bur-dens, increased risk of license revocation for record-keeping errors related to private party sales of firearms, additional de-lays in processing of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) requests, low government-set fees that will not cover their costs, and increased liability exposure arising from having to process private-party transactions.

“The concept of universal background checks sounds appealing on the surface, but the details involved in what actually would be required on the part of firearms retailers to make it work are quite another matter,” said Lawrence G. Ke-ane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. “In fact, the obligations and burdens that would be put in place could be overwhelming for many of those who would be called upon to carry them out. It is unfair to call upon private companies, many of them quite small and with limited person-nel, to conduct what essentially

would be a function of govern-ment.”

The online survey of 640 federal licensed firearms retail-ers nationwide was conducted on Monday, March 18.

Be Wary of Media Reports.

We All Agree -- Let’s Fix NICS

NSSF On the Issues: Background ChecksBe wary of a national news

media in search of information they work hard to find that fits a pre-existing narrative. Ever since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, re-porters have been trying to drive a wedge between orga-nizations that speak up for the Second Amendment. They often find support for their ef-forts from anti-gun organiza-tions and politicians. After all, conflict makes news.

As the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, the National Shooting Sports Foundation believes that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) needs to be fixed to in-clude more state criminal and mental health records. NSSF and its member companies be-lieve that NICS plays a vital role in keeping firearms out of the hands of those who should not have them. The industry has long supported improvements to the NICS system.

An article is today’s Wash-ington Post incorrectly implies that this position puts NSSF at

odds with the National Rifle Association. There is no con-flict.

As NSSF president Steve Sanetti points out in this video, “Regarding so-called universal background checks, or back-ground checks that extend beyond retail sales or to private transfers such as a father pass-ing on a favorite hunting rifle to his son, our big concern is one shared by millions of fire-arms owners -- that enforcing checks of used firearm transfers between individuals will lead to the creation of a national registry of firearms, something that Congress has expressly prohibited.

“In addition, the current background check system would need to be greatly ex-panded at huge cost to handle the additional checks.

“Canada is actually in the process of dismantling its ex-pensive and inefficient rifle and shotgun registry because it takes up police time better used elsewhere. We also have concerns related to the woeful lack of prosecutions of persons flagged by NICS as prohibited from purchasing a firearm, as well as concerns about im-posing on firearms retailers increased regulatory burdens and exposure to liability for merchandise they didn’t even sell.”




Industry Gives the Facts about Modern Sporting

Rifles;Tv Report Gets It RightWatch the video report

by Connecticut’s WTNH Channel 8

In media stories nation-wide, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and its firearm-manufacturer mem-bers continue to correct mis-information about AR-style modern sporting rifles, the sale of which would be banned and ownership severely restricted if proposed legislation is passed by federal and state lawmakers.

Much confusion exists about the function and use of these legal-to-own, semiautomatic rifles, prompting NSSF to take every opportunity to provide accurate information about modern sporting firearms to media, legislators and anyone else willing to listen.

Advocates for banning these rifles have made misleading claims that these semiautomatic firearms can be fired as fast as a machine gun. A fact-filled video report aired this week by Connecticut’s WTNH Channel 8 debunks that claim, showing the huge difference in the rate of fire between a fully auto-matic machine gun, which will continuously fire shots as long as the trigger remains pulled, and the semiautomatic modern sporting rifle--”one of the most popular guns in America”--that shoots just one shot with each separate pull of the trigger.

Civilian ownership of fully automatic firearms has been severely restricted since 1934.

Jake McGuigan, NSSF’s di-rector of government relations-state affairs, pointed out that while the modern sporting rifle looks like a military rifle capable of fully automatic fire, it is instead a semiautomatic model made for purchase by civilians--and is not a machine gun.

The video begins with peo-ple being asked what the rifle’s AR prefix stands for. Unfor-tunately, but not surprisingly, they say “assault rifle” and “au-tomatic rifle.” Neither is true. The prefix stands for ArmaLite, one of 55 companies manufac-turing this style of rifle today.

“We call it the modern sport-ing rifle because these guns are all used legitimately every day for sporting purposes,” said Michael Guerra of Colt Manu-facturing in the video.

About 4 million modern sporting rifles have been pur-chased in the last 10 years. The rifle’s ergonomics, accuracy, low recoil and versatility are prized by target shooters and hunters, as well as those who own them for personal and home defense. The rifle is the latest example of a long-estab-lished trend in which firearm models used by the military such as the bolt-action rifle of World War I and the semiauto-matic M-1 of World War II have became popular with civilians who use them for recreational shooting--except that today’s

semiautomatic modern sport-ing rifle is not a fully automatic “weapon of war.”

In the WTNH piece, Colt Manufacturing CEO Dennis Veilleux said many returning servicemen and women are purchasing modern sporting rifles. “They like to hunt and shoot. Their first choice is go-ing to be what they are most familiar with, what they are most comfortable with. It’s a large part of why this rifle has become more and more popu-lar,” Veilleux said.

Regarding the rifle’s mod-ern look, NSSF President Steve Sanetti has made the point in many interviews, including in a Washington Post story this week, that the appearances of firearms, as with many con-sumer products, are changing. “Nothing looks like it did 50 or 100 years ago,” Sanetti said. “Today, this is the way a rifle looks. It doesn’t have a wood stock or blued steel. It can be a scary-looking thing, and the other side plays on that fear. Yet it has become ‘America’s rifle.’ When target shooters and hunters--age 25 to 40--go to purchase a rifle, the modern sporting rifle is what they want, and they take great pleasure in using it for a variety of lawful, recreational purposes.”

Mark Malkowski, owner of Stag Arms, which solely manu-factures modern sporting rifles, said in a USA Today interview, “We have to understand that there are millions of people who do use our products safely




and responsibly. We’ve seen that bans have not been suc-cessful. If anything, all they do is open up black markets and turn everyday citizens into felons.”

Instead of banning firearms, Malkowski said, “I think we have to look at what really makes a difference . . . [which is] preventing unauthorized access to firearms and as well as immediate improvements to the National [Instant] Criminal Background Check System.”

Learn more about AR-style rifles on NSSF’s modern sport-ing rifle facts page at www.nssf.org/msr and download a pocket fact card.Wingshooting Preserves Can Benefit from NSSF’s

First ShotsTisma Juett, manager of

the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s First Shots intro-duction-to-shooting program, recently addressed attendees of the North American Game-bird Association 81st Annual Convention and Conference in Kansas City, Mo., on how preserve owners can use First Shots to attract new customers.

Juett noted that many wing-shooting preserves through-out the country remain open through March, offering op-portunities for enjoying a late-season hunt with friends and family. A preserve also can be the perfect place to introduce a newcomer, whether youth or adult, to upland bird hunting. Many species of hard-flying

birds can be found at preserves, she noted, and many preserves allow you to bring your own bird dog.

The NSSF website www.wingshootingusa.org helps hunters search for and locate wingshooting preserves na-tionwide. In addition, the site contains an important wing-shooting safety video and links to the Wingshooting USA tele-vision show featuring host Scott Linden and his bird-hunting dog, Buddy.

“Bird producers and pre-serve owners are in a great position to attract newcomers to hunting by providing a sup-portive environment that virtu-ally guarantees some success,” said Juett. “First Shots provides an opportunity for experienced hunters to bring their non-hunting family members and friends to the preserve to learn about the shooting sports in a safe, controlled and fun envi-ronment.”

Sonny Hairston, who is president of North American Gamebird Association and has conducted First Shots seminars at his Little Canyon Shooting Preserve in Peck, Idaho, noted that by taking advantage of First Shots’ cooperative adver-tising funds, a preserve can gain visibility in the communi-ties it serves. “Wingshooting preserves can really benefit from using the First Shots pro-gram,” he said.

Increasing hunter numbers is critical to protecting a great tradition, said Juett. Hunters

provide the bulk of funding for wildlife conservation--nearly $1 billion a year--through their purchases of hunting licenses and by paying the federal excise taxes on purchases of firearms and ammunition. Hunters also support the right to own fire-arms for sporting purposes.

For more information on First Shots, and particularly on how wingshooting preserves can use this program, visit the website at www.firstshots.org or contact Tisma Juett at [email protected].

NSSF Providing Free Firearm Safety Materials to Returning Servicemen

and Women With President Obama ex-

pected to announce the return of 34,000 servicemen and wom-en from Afghanistan within a year at tonight’s State of the Union address, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) announces that it will continue providing free firearm safety materials, including gun locking devices, to America’s returning armed services mem-bers. NSSF is the trade associa-tion for the firearms, ammuni-tion, hunting and shooting sports industry.

In recent years, NSSF has donated and helped place tens of thousands of free firearm safety kits from its Project ChildSafe program into the hands of returning servicemen and women to remind and en-courage them to safely handle and securely store firearms in their homes when they return to civilian life.




The firearm safety kits in-clude a gun locking device and safety brochure that discusses safe storage methods that can help prevent access by unau-thorized persons, including children, at-risk individuals and persons legally prohibited from possessing a firearm.

Project ChildSafe is the nation’s largest and most com-prehensive firearm safety edu-cation program, having distrib-uted more than 35 million free gun lock safety kits in all 50 states and the U.S. Territories. The program, which once re-ceived significant federal fund-ing, is today solely funded by the firearms industry through NSSF.

Learn more about firearms safety and Project ChildSafe at www.projectchildsafe.org.




State News

ALABAMAJOHN DENNEY

WINS ALABAMA WATERFOWL STAMP

ART CONTESTJohn Denney of Alexander

City, Ala., is the winner of the 2014-2015 Alabama Waterfowl Stamp Art Contest with his paint-ing of a pair of pintail ducks. Denney is a second-time winner of the Alabama Waterfowl Stamp Art Contest, having previously received the honor in 2008, and was first runner-up last year.

Denney said his matte acrylic painting took approximately two months to complete. “To me, the pintail is one of the most hand-some ducks, so that’s why I chose to paint it. My prior entries were both wood ducks.”

A pair of pintails was also the subject chosen by first runner-up Eddie LeRoy of Eufaula, Ala., who is a previous two-time contest winner as well. A pair of Canada geese painted by Darrell C. Warr of Montgomery, Ala., was selected as second runner-up, followed by a northern shoveler by Bill Stem of Madison, Ala., as third runner-up. Fourth runner-up was a blue-winged teal painted by John Ro-mine of Owens Cross Roads, Ala.

Entries were judged on suit-ability for reproduction as a stamp, originality, artistic composition, anatomical accuracy and gen-eral rendering. The designs were limited to living species of North American migratory ducks or geese, and winning species from the past three years – American widgeon, ringneck and Ross’s

goose – were not eligible subjects for the contest this year.

The artwork was judged by a panel of experts in the fields of art, ornithology, and conserva-tion. Representing the field of art was Mary Barwick, an author and book illustrator. Representing the field of ornithology was John Earl, a graduate of the Univer-sity of Georgia in Forest Resource Management and currently the manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Eufaula Wildlife Refuge. Representing the field of conservation was Chad Hughey, a long-time member and current chairman of the Alabama Chapter of Ducks Unlimited.

Hughey said the judges had a difficult time selecting the win-ning painting. “There were some outstanding entries. I am very fortunate to have been a part of the selection process,” he said. “Ducks Unlimited strongly sup-ports the federal and state duck stamp programs.”

The annual contest is spon-sored by the Alabama Department of Con-servation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) and is open to resident Alabama artists only. Assistant Wildlife Chief David Hayden encour-ages all Alabama artists to participate the con-test. “We’d love to have more people submit their artwork,” he said. “Past contest entries have included works in oil, watercolor, acrylic and mixed media, all of which are eligible,” Hayden added.

There is plenty of



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comtime for artists to select their sub-ject and paint it before the next competition. Artwork will be ac-cepted from January 1 to February 18, 2014. Potential artists should visit http://www.outdoorala-bama.com/programs/waterfowl for complete information on the contest.

COLORADOGREATER SAGE-

GROuSE vIEWING TOuRS IN CRAIGColorado Parks and Wildlife

along with partner Conservation Colorado is providing the public with guided, greater sage-grouse viewing tours in northwest Colo-rado, from March 28 through April 7.

Anyone interested in a unique wildlife viewing experience in Colorado is encouraged to sign up for the guided tour.

“If you are a dedicated bird watcher, sage-grouse mating is certainly one for your life-list,” said Watchable Wildlife Coordi-nator Trina Romero, of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “But even a casual wildlife watcher will be in awe of this beautiful display.”

Space is limited and reserva-tions are required. To reserve your spot, visit: http://conservationco.org/2013/02/sage-grouse-tours/

For thousands of years, sage-grouse have returned to their tra-ditional breeding grounds - called leks - to perform a dramatic and complex dance as they compete for mates.

Watching male sage-grouse spread their spiked tail feathers and pop their large air sacs is a visual treat for birdwatchers. Hun-dreds from across the world visit Colorado every year to observe the

mating display in person.Colorado Parks and Wildlife

provides a viewing trailer for the guided tour so that people can sit inside and not disturb the grouse on the lek.

“It’s a responsible way to observe lekking behavior, and I highly recommend it,” said Romero. “Ethical wildlife viewing, especially of a sensitive species, should be a priority for all wildlife viewers.”

For dates, times, reservations and further information, please visit: http://conservationco.org/2013/02/sage-grouse-tours/.

To learn more about greater sage-grouse, please visit: http://wildlife.state.co.us/Research/Birds/GreaterSageGrouse/Pag-es/GreaterSageGrouseStudies.aspx

For video of greater sage-grouse, please visit: http://wild-life.state.co.us/NewsMedia/Vid-eos/Pages/GreaterSageGrouse.aspx

Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages 42 state parks, all of Colorado’s wildlife, more than 300 state wildlife areas and a host of recreational programs. To learn more, please visit cpw.state.co.us

DELAWAREMID-WINTER

WATERFOWL SuRvEY FINDS DuCK, SNOW

GOOSE NuMBERS uP, CANADA GOOSE NuMBERS DOWN IN

DELAWAREDOVER (Feb. 21, 2013) – The

number of ducks wintering in Delaware is up slightly, while the Canada goose population remains

lower than average, according to the results of DNREC’s recently-completed annual mid-winter wa-terfowl survey, the Division of Fish and Wildlife announced today.

For the 2013 survey, DNREC Waterfowl Biologist Matt DiBona observed a total of 33,931 ducks and 34,245 Canada geese. “Our duck numbers were up a bit from the 2012 mid-winter waterfowl survey, which coincided with a relatively poor hunting season for 2011-2012. However, our goose numbers have remained lower these past couple of years,” Di-Bona said. “On average we should be seeing 45-50,000 Canada geese here in Delaware. I think the recent mild winters in the East have kept some of these birds further north. And I think these trends are re-flected in our waterfowl harvest.”

More than 17 species of ducks were observed during the survey. Mallard and black ducks, which typically migrate later in the fall and winter, were the most numer-ous species. Northern pintails, American wigeon and north-ern shovelers also were spotted throughout marshes along the Bayshore.

Meanwhile, snow goose num-bers remain high, with nearly 125,000 tallied during the two-day survey. Delaware, along with Maryland and New Jersey, is a favored wintering area for greater snow geese. The snow goose population has grown so large in recent years that waterfowl man-agers are now trying to decrease their numbers to prevent further damage to breeding grounds and wetlands, and to agricultural crops on the wintering grounds. A Snow Goose Conservation Order, which allows special hunting options with fewer restrictions, is open in Delaware now through April 13




to encourage hunters to harvest as many snow geese as possible.

The mid-winter survey area in Delaware includes northern Delaware, which often holds large numbers of Canada geese; the Delaware Bayshore, which includes two national wildlife refuges, several state wildlife areas and other protected areas; and the Inland Bays, where seaducks and brant are often observed.

“The mid-winter survey is a great tool for waterfowl manag-ers to see what’s going on in their state, and where species are con-centrated,” DiBona said. “But like any data, it may not tell the whole story. Weather, tide and time of day can all influence the amount of waterfowl we see, producing changes on a daily basis. However, by looking at the data for trends through time, the survey can pro-vide insight into how numbers of waterfowl and their distribution across the flyway may be chang-ing.”

The mid-winter waterfowl survey is typically flown the first week in January by all participat-ing Atlantic Flyway states and provides an index of the relative abundance and distribution of waterfowl during the winter. Conducted annually since 1935, the survey is particularly impor-tant for tracking the population status of Arctic nesting species of waterfowl, such as Atlantic brant and tundra swans.

Results of the Atlantic Flyway Mid-Winter Survey are currently being compiled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and are ex-pected to be finalized in March.

For Delaware’s survey data, click waterfowl survey.

For more information on the Snow Goose Conservation Order, please visit www.fw.delaware.

gov, or call the Wildlife Section at 302-735-3600.

GEORGIASIGN IN ONLINE FOR WMA SIGN-IN HuNTS

BEFORE YOu GOJust in time for turkey season,

hunters can now sign in online before heading out to wildlife management area sign-in hunts.

Before participating in a WMA sign-in hunt, hunters can sign-in online through a computer or mobile device by visiting http://georgiawildlife.com/hunting. Use of the sign-in system is only permissible for hunters partici-pating in WMA sign-in hunts. All quota and check-in hunts are excluded. In addition, the Wildlife Resources Division will continue to offer paper sign-in sheets at WMAs. Hunters will only need to sign-in online or at the WMA (not both).

“The WMA system gives resi-dent hunters access to nearly 1 million acres of prime hunting land for just $19 a year, and every Georgian lives within an hour of a WMA,” said Dan Forster, Wildlife Resources Division director. “The online sign-in system creates an even more convenient experience for hunters already participating in WMA sign-in hunts, and we hope it entices more sportsmen to take advantage of the great hunt-ing opportunities available on these lands.”

A WMA license is required for any person 16 years or older who does not possess a valid honorary, sportsman or lifetime license when hunting on a WMA or public fish-ing area. In addition, a valid hunt-ing license and a big game license are required to hunt wild turkey,

deer and bear. If a turkey, deer or bear is harvested during a WMA sign-in hunt, hunters are required to sign out their harvested game at the check station/kiosk on the day of the harvest. Be sure to check other regulations before you go at http://georgiawildlife.com/hunt-ing/regulations.

Where can you get a license? Buy it online, find a list of retail license vendors at www.geor-giawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes or buy it by phone at 1-800-366-2661.

View the complete 2012 WMA harvest results at www.geor-giawildlife.com/Hunting/Quo-taSummaries, and plan your WMA hunt today. Visit http://georgiawildlife.com/hunting/wildlife-management-areas to find a WMA near you.

IDAHOSWAN POACHER

SuSPECTS IDENTIFIED,

CHARGEDIn a poaching case that capti-

vated local residents, three Nam-pa juvenile suspects have been charged with a number of wildlife violations related to a poached trumpeter swan near the Boise River just west of Star in February.

The initial release of details about the case generated a number of phone calls to Idaho Fish and Game, all of which helped officers track down the suspects.

While four youths, all from Nampa, were suspected in the poaching incident, charges were filed against only three. Five ci-tations and four warnings were issued in connection with nine violations.

The suspects will appear in



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comcourt in Canyon County in the weeks ahead.

Citations included illegal take of a migratory bird, aid in the commission of a misdemeanor and hunting without a license. Warn-ings also were issued for illegal take of a migratory bird with an unlawful firearm, and three counts of using a motorized vehicle as an aid in hunting.

During the course of the in-vestigation, officers also cited one of the suspects with possession of a nongame protected bird in con-nection with a poached great blue heron. A shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle were seized as evidence in the case.

“Citizen information played a key role in bringing this case to a successful conclusion,” said Evin Oneale, Fish and Game regional conservation educator. “It was all good, from the general description of the vehicle to other tips that came in during the days following the poaching incident. We’re very grateful to our citizenry for their assistance with this case.”

At more than 20 pounds and with a wingspan of 8 feet, the trumpeter swan is the largest wa-terfowl in North America and the largest swan in the world. There is no hunting season on trumpeter swans in Idaho.

INDIANAHOW TO DEAL WITH NuISANCE CANADA

GEESEIf Canada geese have become

a problem on your property, in-formation is available through the Indiana Department of Natural Resources website.

Most goose problems occur from March through June, during

the nesting season, when geese are especially aggressive, sometimes attacking and nipping at people.

Geese also can cause a great deal of localized damage if many young are hatched in one area. After hatching, goslings are inca-pable of flight for about 70 days, so the young birds and their parents will graze near the hatching area for that time. Damage to landscap-ing can be significant and expen-sive to repair or replace, while large amounts of excrement can render areas unfit for human use.

Information on actions prop-erty owners can take to manage Canada geese is available at dnr.IN.gov/dnr/fishwild/2996.htm.

Solutions range from habitat modification, to daily goose ha-rassment through noisemaking devices, to supporting goose hunt-ing or obtaining a DNR trapping permit. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service also allows landowners who are properly registered to destroy resident Canada goose eggs and nests on their property.

More information on register-ing for federal permission to de-stroy eggs and nests is at https://epermits.fws.gov/ercgr/gesi.aspx. It’s against federal law for anyone to destroy a Canada goose nest that contains one or more eggs without first securing permission through the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

It’s best to use preventive mea-sures such as habitat modification before geese become a nuisance.

Contact Information: Shan-non Winks Phone: (812) 358-2253 Email: [email protected]

IOWASHRuBS AND

CONIFERS OFFER

WINTER PROTECTION TO PHEASANT AND

QuAILThe seemingly endless bar-

rage of winter storms impacting Iowa this season are leaving many wildlife experts and enthusiasts concerned that it could be a bad year for pheasants and quail. Heavy snowfall collapsed much of the grassy cover that upland game birds rely on for shelter in the winter, while cover that hasn’t collapsed has been rendered inac-cessible by drifting snow.

The pattern is nothing new – despite a relatively dry winter last season that led to an increase in bird numbers, the four winters prior to last year saw heavier-than-average snowfall, which wreaked havoc on populations.

“Iowa had only 17 inches of snow last winter,” said Todd Bogenschutz, state upland game biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “Parts of the state were close to that total with the first storm in December. It’s very likely we will have some bird mortality with these heavy snows.”

One solution to preventing winter mortality is to plant more conifers and woody shrubs.

Unlike grasses, shrubs, such as gray dogwood, wild plum and ninebark, can grow to 10 feet or more, withstand heavy snow and high winds and offer refuge in even the heaviest of snowpack.

Conifers, like white spruce, also provide excellent cover so long as they don’t grow tall enough to allow nesting for hawks and other predators.

“Shrubs provide cover in the winter and supply food for game birds and other wildlife in the warm months,” said Aron Flick-




inger, state forest nursery man-ager for the Iowa DNR. “We can’t control the weather, but we can increase the habitat that wildlife depend upon for survival by planting native trees and shrubs.”

NEW HuNTING ATLAS AvAILABLE ONLINE

Hunters have a new tool that may improve their in the field ex-perience even before opening day.

The Iowa hunting atlas is an interactive map that shows 600,000 acres of public hunting land that is owned by the state, county or federal governments. The atlas is available online at www.iowadnr.gov/hunting.

A click on an area will show basic information like zone and open season, and links to maps, if available.

The atlas view from above allows hunters to zoom in on an area, see how to get there, the lay of the land and where one parcel of public hunting land is in rela-tion to others. Information will be updated as public hunting lands are acquired.

Monica Thelen, who spear-headed the project for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said the atlas is currently usable on computers and tablets and they are working toward a version of the map for mobile phones.

“This is current information at their fingertips, available 24 hours a day that hunters can access to plan their hunts,” Thelen said. “The best way to use the atlas is to spend time getting familiar with it. Spring turkey hunting begins in April so there is an opportunity here for hunters to find a new place to hunt public land using the atlas.”

SAFE HuNTING YEARWith just a few exceptions,

Iowa hunters are ‘getting it right’ when it comes to staying safe in the great outdoors. Iowa’s 2012 hunter safety incident report shows no firearm related deaths, just 13 injuries and six cases with property damage. Overall, that continues a trend seen for more than a decade now.

Still, hunter safety advocates know a truly safe hunting year should register zeros across the board.

“A lot of the incidents still involve target fixation. Basically the shooter gets focused on the game and tends to forget about surroundings…and what lies beyond the target,” emphasizes Megan Wisecup, safety education coordinator for the Department of Natural Resources; noting that the opening weekend of Iowa’s two shotgun deer seasons continue as busy weekends for investigators.

Several injuries sustained were self inflicted. “Most could be avoided by going back to basic firearms safety rules; making sure your muzzle is pointing in a safe direction. Keeping your finger out of the trigger guard until you’re ready to shoot,” lists Wisecup.

Figures from the last couple decades however, pale in compari-son to the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

From the mid ‘60s to the mid ‘70s, hunting fatalities averaged 13 per year! In the last 10 years, the total has been just six. Injury rates were just as pronounced; scores of them in a typical year in the 60s…dropping a bit in the 70s. They are in the teens now.

On one hand, there were more hunters back then. On the other, anyone born after 1972 is now

required to complete a hunter education class before buying a hunting license.

“That’s the common denomi-nator. Since 1983, when it became mandatory; we have seen a sig-nificant decrease in hunting inci-dents,” agrees Wisecup.

A new round of hunter ed classes is underway now in com-munities across Iowa ahead of spring turkey season. More pop up ahead of the late fall openers for deer and pheasant season. There were 355 offered in 2012. Those classes are taught by more than 1,200 volunteer instructors, all giv-ing up weekends or weeknights to cover the 10 hours of instruction. And more are needed.

Case in point? A 40-seat early April class in

Johnson County filled up in just days…even when 10 more spots were added.

“There’s still a big demand. We have enough volunteers for the four classes we do each year,” as-sesses instructor Doug Thompson of Solon. “The big problem is that our team runs out of weekends where we can all be there. We sometimes set classes four months out, to make sure.”

That annual report carries a grim reminder about the grow-ing popularity in bowhunting. Tree stand falls resulted in two deaths in 2012. There were three injuries, as well. As with firearm incidents…a couple common causes can be traced.

“Not properly wearing a tree stand harness or a harness at all,” reports Wisecup, recommending a built in suspension release system; for hunters who fall but remain suspended for long periods.

She stresses as well, maintain-ing three points of contact with



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comyour ladder or steps as you ascend or come down; and taking care as you haul a bow or other essentials to and from the stand.

“In the last five or six years, we’ve had our archery instructor stress climbing safety, wearing the harness properly. We’ve had harnesses in class for instruction. There’s been a big push,” says Thompson.

With the longer season bow-hunting provides, more archery in school phys-ed offerings; even the push attributed to the popularity of ‘The Hunger Games’ book and movie; archery is growing. That’s why safety instructors want to stay ahead of the curve.

More instructors would al-ways be good, too. That involves a full day workshop; refresher courses each year and, of course, an interest in hunting, safety and interest in working with the (mostly) younger make up of hunter ed attendees. Information is available from the DNR website (www.iowadnr.gov) or local con-servation officers.

ICN HuNTING REGuLATIONS

SESSION THuRSDAYDon’t forget Thursday’s DNR-

hosted 6-9 p.m. public meeting over the Iowa Communications Network. Any thoughts on chang-es in hunting or trapping regula-tions are sought; as well as what is going well…and not so well…during those seasons.

These meetings are part of the new rule-making process in state government.

“Any changes must be dis-cussed with Iowa’s citizens who might be impacted, before the rule changes are proposed. The

new process helps ensure that rule changes serve the public’s wishes and do not impact Iowa’s economy,” said Dr. Dale Garner, chief of the wildlife bureau.

vILSACK TALKS PHEASANT

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is the keynote speaker this weekend at the National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic in Minne-apolis. His appearance comes as the national non-profit organiza-tion works to address tremendous loss of grassland habitat in the last few years and with prospects for the next Farm Bill still up in the air. More information is available at www.PheasantFest.org.

The walleye season at Iowa’s Great Lakes closes Feb. 15, and re-opens at 12 a.m., May 4. Walleyes caught during the closed season at East Okoboji, West Okoboji and Big Spirit lakes must be immedi-ately released unharmed.

Memorial Day weekend is closer than you think. Campsite reservations for the popular holi-day begin Feb. 24, for a May 24 arrival. Campsites can be viewed and reserved online at http://iowastateparks.reserveamerica.com/. Iowa’s state parks hosted nearly 710,000 camper nights in 2012, and if the weather cooper-ates, 2013 could be equally busy.

The deadline to remove per-manent ice fishing shelters from state owned land and water is Feb. 20, or ice melt, whichever comes first. Shelter owners are encour-aged to not wait until the last min-ute to remove their structures, to avoid deteriorating ice conditions.

The 16th Annual Great Back-yard Bird Count will be held Feb. 15-18, and anyone can participate. Simply watch birds at your feed-

ers, or any location you wish, count the number of birds for each species you see in 15 minutes and report the results on online at www.BirdCount.org. Yes, you can conduct surveys at multiple loca-tions. Click on how to participate at www.BirdCount.org for more information.

Looking for hunting oppor-tunities? Iowa’s crow season is open until March 31. The special conservation order to hunt white and blue phase snow geese and Ross’ geese is open until April 15 statewide. There are additional regulations that apply. Trapping season for beavers is open until April 15. Coyote hunting has a continuous open season.

Hunter education classes are being held across the state ahead of the spring turkey season. To find a class, go to https://www.iowadnr.gov/training. Early regis-tration is encouraged as class sizes are limited.

Ice in central Iowa is becom-ing unpredictable after a series of temperature swings from mild to cold and back to mild, wind and rain. If going out, use extra cau-tion and test the ice often. Bring safety equipment – 50 feet of rope, a throwable floatation device and ice picks.

Visit the Iowa DNR’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/iow-adnr for more outdoors discussion and photos.

KANSASPuBLIC INPuT SOuGHT ON

DRAFT LESSER PRAIRIE CHICKEN

MANAGEMENT PLANAnyone interested in lesser

prairie chicken management en-




couraged to attend PRATT – The Kansas Depart-

ment of Wildlife, Parks and Tour-ism (KDWPT) has been working with the Lesser Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group to pro-duce a draft Range-wide Conser-vation Plan for the Lesser Prairie Chicken. The plan addresses the decline of the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mex-ico, Texas and Colorado and is intended to benefit the wildlife re-sources, people, and economies of these states by providing a frame-work for effective lesser prairie chicken management and habitat improvement. The ultimate goal is to increase the range-wide popula-tion of lesser prairie chickens. The draft plan emphasizes incentives and tools that encourage landown-ers to partner with agencies in con-servation efforts while achieving their land use needs.

In December, the U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species under the Endangered Species act. A final decision will be made

next fall. The Interstate Working Group’s management plan could influence the USFWS’s decision if it can show that lesser prairie chicken populations can be man-aged at sustainable levels.

Public meetings were held in southwest Kansas in November to gain input from landowners, producers and other stakeholders as the plan was being developed. Now that a draft plan has been assembled, three additional public meetings are scheduled to con-tinue the dialog.

March 5: WaKeeney, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., WaKeeney City Library, 610 Russell Ave.

March 6: Lakin, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Kearny County Library, 101 E. Prairie.

March 7: Greensburg, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Community Center (by fair-grounds), 720 N Bay.

More information about

the planning process can be found at the project website: http://www.ksre.k-state.edu/p.aspx?tabid=275

PHEASANTS FOREvER & QuAIL FOREvER

RAISE OvER $10 MILLION FOR

uPLAND BIRDSOrganization positively im-

pacts wildlife habitat and youth through grassroots campaign

OTTAWA – Pheasants For-ever (PF), a nonprofit organiza-tion dedicated to upland habitat conservation, raised more than $10 million for Kansas’ upland hunting tradition during their Kansas Grassroots Conservation Campaign. Campaign partners included Quail Forever (QF), the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), the Kansas De-partment of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT), donors, vol-unteer leaders, and local PF and QF chapters.

“By working together over the past three years, Pheasants

Forever and our campaign partners have been able to drastically increase our col-lective impact on Kansas’ upland habitat and wild-life,” said PF President and CEO, Howard K. Vincent. “In addition, this campaign has allowed us to ramp up our youth mentoring ef-forts designed to get more Kansas youth outdoors.”

The conservation cam-paign, which surpassed the original monetary goal of $10 million, made it pos-sible for PF to support the following efforts:

* More than 500,000 acres positively impacted.

* Expanding wildlife biology-focused conservation planning assistance and conservation pro-gram delivery through PF’s Farm



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comBill biologist partnership with NRCS and KDWPT.

* Helping to host upwards of 115 Landowner Habitat Work-shops across the state in partner-ship with Kansas conservation partners.

* Contacting more than 4,000 Kansas landowners and helping them enroll in USDA conservation programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and CP-33 Quail Buffers.

* Improving public land habi-tat through PF’s Habitat Special-ist partnership with KDWPT on three Kansas wildlife management areas.

* Increasing outdoor youth mentoring opportunities through a partnership with KDWPT, Pass It On – Outdoors Mentors, National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and others.

* Permanently protecting over 2,340 acres for public use through PF land donation legacy partner-ships.

“This Campaign has produced spectacular results, but the real-ity is that we all must do much more if we intend to overcome the challenges facing Kansas’ upland wildlife,” said Pheasants Forever Development Officer, Jordan Mar-tincich. “Habitat is vanishing at a never-before-seen rate, so we must continue increasing our impact through strategic initiatives.”

PF and QF recently celebrated their accomplishments at the Kan-sas Convention and Habitat Meet-ing on Feb. 2. The event was held at the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita.

For more information on this campaign, or to pledge your sup-port for Pheasants Forever’s Kan-sas initiatives, contact Martincich at (785) 242-3175 or visit www.

kansaspfqf.com. Pheasants Forever, including

its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat con-servation. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have more than 135,000 members and 720 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empow-ered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent, the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grass-roots structure.

KENTuCKYPORTIONS OF

BALLARD WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA

CLOSED DuE TO HIGH WATER

Some roads within Ballard Wildlife Management Area will remain closed due to high water.

The area, located in Ballard County bordering the Ohio River, has water covering some of its in-terior roads. Due to safety consid-erations, some roads will remain closed until the river recedes to safer levels.

Visitors may call contact the Ballard office for the latest closure information at (270) 224-2244.

MINNESOTAWALK-IN ACCESS

PROGRAM ExPANDS TO 14 NEW COuNTIES

Landowners from 14 addi-tional counties now can enroll land in the Walk-In Access program, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said.

Walk-in lands provide public

access to private land. Landown-ers, in turn, are paid for the ac-cess. The program now includes 35 counties in the western half of the state.

“We’ve had many requests to expand the area of our Walk-In pilot program,” said Marybeth Block, DNR walk-in access coordi-nator. “As we enter our third year for the program, the time seems right to add some additional coun-ties.”

New walk-in counties include Becker, Blue Earth, Clay, Doug-las, Faribault, Grant, Le Sueur, McLeod, Meeker, Nicollet, Otter Tail, Sibley, Traverse and Wilkin.

Walk-in targets privately owned parcels of 40 acres or more, which are enrolled in a conserva-tion program such as Conserva-tion Reserve Program or Reinvest In Minnesota. River bottoms, wetlands and other high quality habitat can also be considered for the program.

The program pays landown-ers by the acre to allow hunting access. Bonuses are added if more than 140 contiguous acres are enrolled, if the land is within one-half mile of existing state or federal hunting land, or if a multi-year agreement is signed.

Landowners can contact their local Soil and Water Conservation District office for program details and enrollments.

Block said that 12,500 acres are already enrolled for 2013 through multi-year contracts and hopes to add another 12,500 acres in new enrollments.

“Walk-in access is an effective way for landowners to generate extra revenue from their habitat acres,” Block said. “It rewards landowners who own high quality habitat and are willing to let the




public hunt on it.”Walk-in lands are open for

public hunting only, each year from Sept. 1 to May 31. No target practice, trapping, dog training, camping, horseback riding or fires are allowed. Enrolled acres are for walk-in traffic only; no vehicles are allowed on conservation land.

Once private land is enrolled in the program, bright yellow-green hexagon signs are placed at the property boundaries.

Locations of parcels enrolled for 2013 will be on the DNR web-site in August. More information on the Walk-In program and a map of the walk-in access counties is available online at www.mndnr.gov/walkin.

OPEN-WATER DuCK HuNTING AMONG TOPICS AT PuBLIC INPuT MEETINGSThe Minnesota Department

of Natural Resources (DNR) soon will seek citizen input on creating limited opportunities for open-water hunting for waterfowl as well as a number of other topics at annual public input meetings.

Aside from open-water duck hunting, the DNR is seeking input on the following proposals:

* Allowing Canada goose hunting in August to alleviate depredation of agricultural fields in west central Minnesota.

* Opening the second portion of the state’s 124-day crow season later in the year.

* Opening prairie chicken hunting season earlier in October than the current season.

* Allowing youth age 17 and younger to hunt during all spring turkey seasons with a limit of one.

* Youth would not be required to select a permit area.

Meetings, which will be con-ducted from 7-9 p.m., are sched-uled:

* Monday, March 11, Room B-212 at Hibbing Community Col-lege, 1515 East 25th St., Hibbing.

* Tuesday, March 12, North-land Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls.

* Wednesday, March 13, Alex-andria Community and Technical College in Alexandria.

A separate public input pro-cess to address deer antler point restrictions in southeastern Min-nesota is available online at www.mndnr.gov/wildlife/input/se-deer.

People who cannot attend a meeting are urged to complete a questionnaire online at www.mndnr.gov/wildlife/input.

Comments are also welcome via email at [email protected]. Written comments may be addressed to: Season Com-ments, DNR Section of Wildlife, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4007.

MONTANAuPLAND GAME BIRD COuNCIL TO MEET IN

CONRADAn advisory council that last

year submitted recommendations on a long-range strategic plan for Montana’s Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program will meet in Conrad, April 2-3.

The group will participate in 2013 field-season planning and tour various habitat projects.

The meeting will be held at Pondera Shooting Sports Club, 972 Granite Rd., beginning April

2 at 1 p.m.The public is invited to attend

and may provide comments to the council during the time identified on the agenda. For more infor-mation visit the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ website at fwp.mt.gov, then click “Upland Game Bird Council”. Or contact Debbie Hohler by phone at 406-444-5674, or by e-mail at [email protected].

SNOW GEESE FLOCK TO FREEzOuT WMA

Tens of thousands of snow geese are flocking to Freezout Wildlife Management Area in north central Montana.

In just the last week, between 50,000 to 100,000 of the white birds have appeared at the WMA. The birds are flying north to breeding grounds.

Freezout is located between the towns of Fairfield and Chote-au, along U.S. 89.

Typically snow geese migra-tion peaks the end of March. Some years, winter weather far-ther north can bottle up the birds temporarily at Freezout, leading to numbers greater than 100,000.

Birdwatchers also head to Freezout this time of year to view migrating raptors and shorebirds. Visitors should be careful of mud-dy roads on the WMA.

For more information on what birds are stopping at Freezout, call the WMA hotline at (406) 467-2646.

Tens of thousands of snow geese are flocking to Freezout Wildlife Management Area in north central Montana.

In just the last week, between 50,000 to 100,000 of the white birds have appeared at the WMA. The birds are flying north to breeding




grounds.Freezout is located between

the towns of Fairfield and Chote-au, along U.S. 89.

Typically snow geese migra-tion peaks the end of March. Some years, winter weather far-ther north can bottle up the birds temporarily at Freezout, leading to numbers greater than 100,000.

Birdwatchers also head to Freezout this time of year to view migrating raptors and shorebirds. Visitors should be careful of mud-dy roads on the WMA.

For more information on what birds are stopping at Freezout, call the WMA hotline at (406) 467-2646.

NEBRASKASOuTHWEST FOCuS

ON PHEASANTS WINS CONSERvATION

AWARDThe Southwest Focus on

Pheasants Partnership was given the Wildlife Conservationist of the Year award on Feb. 2 in Kearney. It was presented by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Pheasants Forever (PF) for outstanding efforts promoting the ideals of conservation and work-ing in a partnership.

The award was presented at the PF state habitat meeting.

The Southwest Focus on Pheasants, formed in 2010 to improve pheasant hunting by creating more and better habitat, encompasses more than 950,000 acres in Hitchcock, Hayes, Frontier and Red Willow counties. It has impacted more than 15,000 acres.

The key partners include Game and Parks, PF, Natural

Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Research Unit, UNL Extension Ser-vice, landowners and volunteers.

NEW HAMPSHIRERuFFED GROuSE, NEW ENGLAND

COTTONTAIL FEATuRED IN NH

WILDLIFE JOuRNAL

Head into the briar patch in search of the elusive endangered New England cottontail in the March/April 2013 issue of NH Wildlife Journal magazine. Biolo-gist Heidi Holman gives readers a “bunny’s eye view” of regional efforts to restore this rare rabbit to our landscape.

Also in this issue, get to know t h e r u f f e d grouse, a bird with a passion-ate following. Find out how the changing nature of New Hampshire’s forested land-scape affects future pros-pects for both g r o u s e a n d New England cottontails.

T h e n g e t ready to smile – plus learn a little something – as you peruse the “Beginners Guide to Hiring a Guide.” Illustrated by cartoonist Will Staats, this article provides a tip sheet on hiring a professional guide, which can be a great way to reduce the stress of figuring out all the details when you’re trying something new in

the great outdoors.The March/April issue also

profiles wood frogs, whose duck-like quacking will soon herald the arrival of spring. Readers will get an armchair tour of several excellent boat access points for paddling the northern reaches of the Merrimack River, enjoy the adventures of Fish and Game Conservation Officers in Warden’s Watch, and much more.

Not a subscriber to New Hampshire Wildlife Journal? The magazine is published 6 times a year by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Subscrip-tions are just $12 for one year -- that’s 40% off the cover price -- or $20 for two years. A great gift idea! Read sample articles and find a print-and-mail subscription form at wildnh.com/Wildlife_Journal/WJ_mag.htm.

NEW YORK

DEC INvITES HuNTER

INPuT ON FALL 2013

WATERFOWL SEASONSTask Forces to

Help Set Season Dates for Waterfowl Hunting in New York

Hunters are in-vited to submit recommendations to regional Waterfowl Hunter Task Forces for the dates of the fall 2013 duck hunting seasons by April 5, New York State Department of En-vironmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens today said. DEC will evaluate the task force recommendations in setting




waterfowl seasons, which must comply with federal rules.

Through Governor Cuomo’s NY’s Open for Hunting & Fishing Initiative, DEC is looking for ways to expand opportunities for both in-state and out-of-state sports-men and women,” Commissioner Martens said. “The public’s input will help us do that for the water-fowl hunting season in a manner that is most advantageous for sportsmen and women.”

New York is divided into five waterfowl hunting zones: West-ern, Southeastern, Northeastern, Lake Champlain, and Long Island. DEC recently appointed task forces for each zone (except Lake Champlain) to solicit recommen-dations for the fall 2013 hunting seasons, including opening and closing dates, split seasons and a special hunting weekend for ju-nior hunters (hunters ages 12-15). Each task force includes represen-tatives from the New York State Conservation Council, established waterfowl hunting organizations and individual waterfowl hunters who provide input from diverse points of view.

The recommended dates must be within federal guidelines estab-lished by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). For fall 2013, DEC expects the USFWS to allow a 60-day duck season, split into no more than two segments per zone, opening no earlier than Sept. 21, 2013, and closing no later than Jan. 26, 2014.

Waterfowl hunters can partici-pate in the season-setting process by providing duck season sugges-tions to any task force member on or before April 5, 2013. Names and contact information for all task force members are listed in alpha-betical order on the DEC website.

Comments can be provided

by mail, telephone or e-mail, with e-mail being the preferred method. The task forces will meet in April, and DEC plans to announce ten-tative duck hunting season dates in June.

Input on hunting seasons for other migratory game birds, including Canada geese, snow geese, brant and woodcock, may also be submitted to any member of DEC’s season-setting team. However, due to greater uncer-tainty about federal regulations for those species, decisions and ten-tative dates will probably not be known until later in the summer.

Waterfowl seasons in the Lake Champlain Zone will continue to be set by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Management Board, with input from DEC and waterfowl hunters in New York and Vermont. Although there is no formal task force for this zone, hunters can send their suggestions to any DEC season-setting team member.

Governor Cuomo’s NY Open for Hunting and Fishing Initiative is an effort to improve recreational activities for in-state and out-of-state sportsmen and sportswomen and to boost tourism opportunities throughout the state. This initia-tive includes the streamlining of hunting and fishing licensing and reducing license fees, improved access for fishing at various sites across the state, and increasing hunting opportunities in various regions.

Descriptions of New York State’s Waterfowl Hunting Zones can be found on the DEC website and are listed in DEC’s Waterfowl Hunting Seasons and Regulations brochure. The final waterfowl hunting season dates will be posted on the DEC website and announced by news release in late August.

NORTH CAROLINA

WILDLIFE COMMISSION

ADOPTS RESOLuTION SuPPORTING SuNDAY

HuNTING The N.C. Wildlife Resources

Commission has adopted a resolu-tion supporting a bill that would allow people to hunt on Sundays on private lands.

During the March 14 business meeting, the Commission adopted a resolution in support of Senate Bill 224, which would remove a prohibition against Sunday hunt-ing on private lands with shotgun, rifle or pistol set out in N.C.G.S. 103-2.

The mission of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Com-mission includes conserving and managing wildlife resources and enhancing the state’s rich hunting heritage by providing opportuni-ties for hunters to enjoy wildlife-associated recreation.

“Allowing Sunday hunting on private lands will provide ad-ditional hunting days and addi-tional options for youth and adults whose school and employment responsibilities limit their hunting opportunities to weekends,” said Gordon Myers, executive director of the Wildlife Commission.

The prohibition against Sun-day hunting serves no purpose with regard to conservation of wildlife resources and habitats. North Carolina residents who cur-rently seek hunting opportunities in neighboring states that do allow Sunday hunting take substan-tial revenues elsewhere instead of keeping these dollars within



April/May 2013 Now in our Twenty Second year www.Bdarn.comNorth Carolina borders where they would generate tremendous economic benefits, particularly to rural areas and businesses.

In 2009, the Commission ad-opted regulations allowing hunt-ing on Sundays on private lands with archery equipment. Since September 2010 North Carolinians have been hunting on Sundays on private lands with archery equip-ment without incident or conflict.

The Commission also adopted a motion Thursday directing My-ers to work with the Legislature and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to find a solution for the potential loss of compensatory hunting days for those who hunt migratory wa-terfowl on public waters, should Senate Bill 224 become law.

View full text of the resolution.For more information on hunt-

ing in North Carolina, including season dates and regulations, visit www.ncwildlife.org.

NORTH DAKOTATRACKING SNOW

GEESENorth Dakota spring light

goose hunters can track general locations of geese as birds make their way through the state.

Hunters are able to call (701) 328-3697 to hear recorded infor-mation 24 hours a day. Migration reports are also posted on the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. Updates will be provided periodi-cally during the week as migration events occur, until the season ends or geese have left the state.

North Dakota’s spring light goose season continues through May 5. Season information, in-cluding licensing requirements and regulations, are also available

by accessing the Game and Fish website.

HuNTING GuIDE AND OuTFITTER TEST SET

The next guide and outfit-ter written examination is May 11 at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department of-fice in Bismarck. The test is given periodically to anyone interested in becoming a hunting guide or outfitter in the state.

In addition to passing a written exam, qualifications for becoming a guide include a background check for criminal and game and fish violations; certification in car-diopulmonary resuscitation and standard first aid; and employ-ment by or contract with a licensed hunting outfitter.

Hunting outfitter eligibility requirements include the guide qualifications, as well as an indi-vidual must have held a hunting guide license for two years; and must have proof of liability insur-ance.

Interested individuals are required to preregister by calling the Game and Fish Department’s enforcement office at 328-6604.

SOuTH DAKOTASNOW GOOSE

MIGRATION ENTERS SOuTH DAKOTA

People traveling in south-eastern and south central South Dakota are seeing a familiar spring event - the annual migration of snow geese.

Geese have been arriving in growing numbers in areas along the southern South Dakota border and northward to Interstate 90.

The snow goose population

has ballooned in the past several years. To help control them and prevent further habitat degrada-tion that those nesting birds have caused to the Arctic tundra, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a Conservation Order to states that allow hunting of snow geese in the spring.

In South Dakota, the Con-servation Order runs from Feb. 16 through May 5. Hunting is allowed statewide with no limit on the number of snow geese that may be taken. Hunters are required to have a valid hunting license, but the federal waterfowl stamp is not required. Nontoxic shot is mandatory.

The Conservation Order is specific to snow and blue geese, and Ross’ geese. Other waterfowl may not be shot.

For more information on the Spring Conservation Order, visit the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department website at http://www.gfp.sd.gov/hunt-ing/waterfowl/spring-light-goose.aspx

GFP has information on snow goose migration movement and hunting opportunity at http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/waterfowl/migration/

uTAHPHEASANTS

RELEASED IN THREE COuNTIES

RICHFIELD — Nearly 2,000 pheasants were released in Se-vier, Wayne and Millard counties recently.




Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife (SFW) paid for the birds. After obtaining the pheas-ants, Division of Wildlife Re-sources biologists and SFW members released the birds on state-owned wildlife manage-ment areas that are open to public hunters.

The pheasants were released on Feb. 26 and 27.

Most of the pheasants were females that are not legal to harvest. Hopefully, the hens will survive, breed this spring with male pheasants on the WMAs and raise broods of wild pheas-ants that hunters can pursue this fall.

Before releasing the birds, DWR biologists tagged each hen with a brightly colored leg band that the biologists can see from a distance. In May, June and July, biologists will see how the birds are doing by recording the number of released hens that have chicks with them.

More pheasantsDWR Biologist Lynn Zubek

was in charge of the release. He says the DWR and SFW have worked hard to improve habitat on the WMAs where the pheas-ants were released. “It’s great to see pheasants released onto these areas,” Zubeck says. “We hope they’ll survive and reproduce.”

In addition to paying for the pheasants, SFW members were on hand to help release the birds. “It’s great to see these birds fly into the brush,” said SFW member Troy Justensen. “In the future, I look forward to bringing my children here to hunt pheasants.”

Justensen says SFW is excited to team with the DWR to help Utah’s wildlife.

Paul Niemeyer, an SFW mem-ber from Richfield, says many peo-ple in the local communities are interested in pheasants and other wildlife. “I love to see a group of hunters, including youngsters, gathered around a pickup with a cup of hot chocolate in their hands and a couple of pheasant tail feathers sticking out of their coat pocket,” Niemeyer says. “That’s as good as it gets.”

Much of the money for the pheasant release and other wildlife projects in Utah is generated at local fund-raising banquets held by sportsmen’s organizations, including SFW.

A hen pheasant takes flight in south-central Utah. The DWR and Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife

released 2,000 pheasants — mostly hens — on Feb. 26 and 27. Photo by Lynn Chamberlain




See hundreds of tundra swans

Seeing and hearing just one tundra swan is enough to take your breath away.

Imagine seeing and hearing hundreds of them.

You can at Tundra Swan Day.Tundra Swan Day, March 16On March 16, the Division of

Wildlife Resources will host Utah’s annual Tundra Swan Day. Admis-sion is free.

Viewing will take place at two sites: The Farmington Bay Water-fowl Management Area west of Farmington and the Salt Creek WMA west of Corinne.

The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge was planning on holding a Tundra Swan Day on March 16 too. However, on March 5, person-nel at the refuge announced that the event had been canceled be-cause of cuts in the federal budget.

The Bear River Refuge is man-aged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Farmington Bay and Salt CreekViewing at the Farmington

Bay and Salt Creek WMAs runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Spotting scopes will be avail-able so you can get a close look at the swans.

Learn moreFor more information about

Tundra Swan Day, call the DWR’s Northern Region office at 801-476-2740 or the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge at 435-723-5887.

The Wild About Birds Nature Center in Layton is also a great place to call or visit to learn about recent bird sightings. You can reach the center at 801-779-BIRD (2473).

You can also download a free PDF fact sheet about tundra swans online.

Watching swans on your ownIf you can’t attend the March

16 event, you can still get out and watch swans on your own.

Phil Douglass, regional con-servation outreach manager for the DWR, says the Salt Creek WMA west of Corinne is the best place to get a close look at swans. “Randy Berger, the manager at the WMA, has done a great job creating a viewing pavilion that

You can see hundreds of tundra swans at this year’s Tundra Swan Day. The free wildlife viewing event will be held March 16 at two

locations in northern utah.Photo by Phil Douglass, utah Division of

Wildlife Resources

will shelter you from the wind,” Douglass says.

While you can see hundreds of swans while driving on the 12-mile auto tour loop at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Douglass says swans are usually farther away than they are at Salt Creek.

When the swan migration peaks in mid-March, as many as 35,000 swans will be in Utah.

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Gun Shows

ALASKA Apr 20-21 Gun Show Fair-grounds Glenn Highway Palm-er

ALABAMA May 18-19 Gun Show Civic Center North Expo Hall Bir-mingham

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Expo Hall Carter Lake ILLINOIS

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NORTH CAROLINA

Apr 6-7 Gun Show Crown Expo Center 1960 Coliseum Dr Fay-etteville Apr 13-14 Gun Show Metrolina Expo Cen-ter 7100 Statesville Rd

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NEW HAMPSHIRE

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June 8-9 Gun Show Tropicana Las Vegas

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OKLAHOMA April 6-7 Gun Show




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SOuTH CAROLINA

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las June 8-9 Gun Show Civic Center 3401 Cul-tural Center Dr Port Arthur June 15-16 Gun Show Convention Center 500 W. Las Colinas Blvd Irving June 15-16 Gun Show Civic Center 601 N. Second St. Lufkin June 22-23 Gun Show Amon Carter Exhibit Hall Fort Worth June 22-23 Gun Show Convention Center 1001 Avenida de Las Americas Houston June 29-30 Gun Show Rodeo Exhibition Cen-ter Mesquite June 29-30 Gun Show Convention Center Pasadena

uTAH Apr 13-14 Gun Show South Towne Expo Center 9575 S. State St Salt Lake City

vIRGINIA April 6-7 Gun Show Scope 201 East Bram-bleton Ave Norfolk April 13-14 Gun Show Augusta Expoland 277 Expo Road Fishersville Apr 19-21 Gun Show Expo Center South Hall Chantilly April 19-21 Gun Show Expo Center 4368 Chantilly Chantilly Apr 27-28 Gun Show

Civic Center 1001 Roa-noke Boulevard Salem May 18-19 Gun Show VFW Post 1503 Min-nieville Rd Dale City May 18-19 Gun Show The Showplace 3000 Mechanics Tpke Rich-mond June 1-2 Gun Show VFW Post 1503 Min-nieville Rd Dale City June 7-9 Gun Show Dulles Expo Center 4368 Chantilly Shop-ping Center Chantilly June 7-9 Gun Show Expo Center 4368 Chantilly Chantilly

vERMONT April 27-28 Gun Show American Legion 1 Boardman St Middle-bury WASHINGTON

April 6-7 Gun Show F a i rg ro u n d s 1 2 0 0 Fairgrounds Rd NW Bremerton Apr 6-7 Gun Show Fairgrounds I5 On Hwy 2 Monroe April 13-14 Gun Show Fairgrounds 2555 N National Ave Centralia April 13-14 Gun Show Fairgrounds 1775 Front St Lynden Apr 27-28 Gun Show Fairgrounds Hwy 512 & Meridian St Puyal-lup May 4-5 Gun Show Fairgrounds I5 On

Hwy 2 Monroe June 1-2 Gun Show Sil-ver Reef Casino Event Center 4876 Haxton Way Ferndale June 8-9 Gun Show Fairgrounds I5 On Hwy 2 Monroe June 22-23 Gun Show Fairgrounds Hwy 512 & Meridian St Puyal-lup June 29-30 Gun Show F a i rg ro u n d s 1 2 0 0 Fairgrounds Rd NW Bremerton

WISCONSIN Antigo 5-7 Gun Show Antigo Ice Arena 1633 Neva Road Antigo Apr 19-21 Gun Show Expo Forum 1000 N o r t h v i e w R o a d Waukesha April 26-28 Gun Show Expo W3035 Edge-wood Tr Hwy JJ Ap-pleton May 17-19 Gun Show Fairgrounds 19805 Du-rand Ave Union Grove May 24-26 Gun Show Ice Arena 4149 Hwy 70 East Eagle River June 14-16 Gun Show Expo Forum 1000 N o r t h v i e w R o a d Waukesha WEST vIRGINIA April 26-27 Gun Show Raleigh Cty Civic Cen-ter Rt 19 Beckley May 17-18 Gun Show Reserve Center 8832

Point Pleasant Rd Mill-wood




Calendar Of Events For Field Trials & Hunt Tests

ALBERTA May 4-5 GSP Field Trail Club Of Alberta Trial Rockyford May 11-12 Brittany Spaniel Club Of Cana-da Trial Cochrane May 18-19 Calgary Pointing Dog Club Hunt Test Bragg Creek May 25-26 GSP Field Trail Club Of Alberta Hunt test Beiseker May 31-2 Red Deer Retriever Club Trial Reed Deer June 8-9 Calgary Point-ing Dog Club Hunt Tests Calgary June 8-9 Wild Rose Hunting Retriever Tri-al Tofield June 14 -16 Rocky Mountain Sporting Dog Club Trial Leth-bridge June 21-23 Calgary English Springer Span-iel Club Trial Milo June 29-1 Alberta Clip-pers Hunting Retriever Association Hunt Test Wabamun

ALASKA June 7-9 Retriever Club of Alaska Trial Point MacKenzie Wasilla

ALABAMA April 6-7 Black Warrior Retriever Club Of Ala-

bama Hunt Test For-ever Wild State Cattle Ranch Greensboro

ARKANSAS April 13-14 AR/LA Re-gional NSTRA NSTRA J&G Game Preserve 671 Mt Bethel Rd Hack-ettstown April 27-28 Hurricane Lake Hunting Retriev-er Club Hunt Test Web Footed Kennels 207 W Vinity Road Jonesboro

ARIzONA April 20-21 Grand Canyon Of Arizona NAVHDA Camp Verde

BRITISH COLuMBIA

April 13-14 BC Ama-teur Field Trial Club Trial Pitt Meadows April 13-14 British Co-lumbia Amateur Field Trial Club Retriever Trial Maple Ridge April 17 Upper Island Retriever Club Trial Courtenay April 20-21 Vancouver Island Retriever Club Trial Crofton April 27-28 Pacific Rim Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Co-wichan Valley April 27-28 Vancouver Island Pointing Dog Club Trial Nanoose

Bay May 4-5 Fraser Val-ley Retriever Training Club Trial Running Grounds 264th & 8th Ave Langley May 4-5 Golden Re-triever Club Of British Columbia Hunt Test Abbotsford May 8-9 Richmond Retriever Club Trial Mission May 11-12 British Co-lumbia Labrador Re-triever Club Trial Der-oche May 11 Vancouver Island Pointing Dog Club Hunt Test Na-noose Bay May 18-19 Pr ince George Retriever Club Trial Prince George May 24-26 Kamloops Gun Dog Club Retriev-er Hunt Test Kamloops Kamloops May 31-2 British Co-l u m b i a A l l B re e d Pointing Club Trial Princeton June 1-2 British Colum-bia Labrador Retriever Club Hunt Test Bridal Falls June 15-16 Eastern Slopes Spaniel Associ-ation Trial Strathmore June 21-23 Logan Lake

Retriever Club Trial Logan Lake

CALIFORNIA April 6-7 Great Central Valley NAVHDA Test Ione April 6-7 GWP Club Of Northern California Hunt Test Hastings Island Wildlife Area www.gwpcnc.9f.com Rio Vista April 6-7 Lassen Re-triever Club Hunt Test Lassen Investment Property Golden Glen Kennel Panotama Pt Rd Anderson April 12-14 Sacramen-to Valley Retriever Club Trial Clear Creak Sports Club 8 Miles SW Of Hwy 12 Corning April 12-14 San Diego NAVHDA NAVHDA Chino Hills April 13 GWP Club Of Northern Sacramento Hunt Test Hastings Island Wildlife Area www.gwpcnc.9f.com Rio Vista April 20 English Cock-er Club Of America Hunt Test Prado Dog Training Area Chino April 20-21 Northern Calif Nevada Region NSTRA Trial Green Gulch Ranch Vinton April 20-21 Sutter Buttes Pointing Club Hunt Test Hastings Is-land Hunting Preserve 7758 Hastings Island




Rd Rio Vista April 27-28 Regional Championship NSTRA Trial Lockwood May 3 Northern Ca-lif Nevada Region NSTRA Trial Green Gulch Ranch Vinton May 4-5 Michigan Re-gion NSTRA Trial Ce-dar Creek Ranch 5836 Two MIle Rd Galdwin May 4-5 Northern Calif Nevada Region NSTRA Trial Green Gulch Ranch Vinton May 11-12 GWP Club Of Northern California Trial Hastings Island Wildlife Area www.gwpcnc.9f.com Rio Vista May 11-12 Lockwood Valley Training NSTRA Trial Lockwood Valley May 16-19 California South Coast Retriever Hunt Test Goose Lake I5 & Hwy 46 Lost Hills May 25-27 Lockwood Valley Training NSTRA Trial Lockwood Valley

COLORADO April 5-10 Vizsla Club of America Trial Rocky Mountain Roosters 21172 Rd 79 Rt#1 Cal-han April 6-7 Panhandle Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Schil-ler Farms Crook April 6-7 Rocky Moun-tain Region NSTRA

Trial Lock N Load Ken-nel Wiggins April 20-21 Sporting Dog Club NSTRA Tri-al Sporting Dog Club Strasburg April 27-28 Southern Colorado Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Indian Bench Ranch Hwy 50 & Nepesta Rd Fowler May 3-5 Fort Collins Retriever Club Hunt Test Swift Ponds Ft Collins May 4-5 Rocky Moun-tain Region NSTRA Trial Start to Finish Gun Dogs Rush M a y 1 8 - 1 9 R o c k y Mountain Navhda NAVHDA Test Wel-lington May 25-27 Centennial Retriever Club Trial Stillroven Farms Bang-A-Way Gun Club Ber-thoud CONNECTICuT

April 12-14 Hudson Valley German Short-haired Pointer Club Trial Flaherty Field Trial Area Tromley Rd East Windsor April 19-21Mayflower GSP Club Trial Flaherty Field Trial Grounds Tromley Road East Windsor April 27-28 Irish Setter Club of New England Hunt Test Danielson April 27-28 Tartan Gor-

don Setter Club Hunt Test Danielson May 18-19 Southern New England Navhda NAVHDA Test Staf-ford Springs

DELAWARE April 6-7 Diamond State GSP Association Hunt Test C&R Center Rt 13 Petersburg April 20-22 Gordon Setter Club Of America Trial Norman Wilder Wildlife Area Peters-burg May 18-19 Delmarva Navhda NAVHDA Norman G. Wilder WMA 553 CR Center Rd Petersburg June 1-2 Maryland Re-triever Club Hunt Test Johnson Farm Green-wood

FLORIDA April 13-14 Northeast Florida Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Whisper Creek Pacetti Road St. Augustine

GEORGIA April 13-14 Atlanta Retriever Club Hunt Test Backwater Farm Buckethead April 19 Flat Coat Retriever Society Of America Trial Mans-field April 20-21 Flat Coat Retriever Society Hunt Test 3580 Broughton Rd Covington May 3-5 Tall Pines Re-

triever Club Trial Lees-burg May 11-12 Fall Line Re-triever Club of Georgia Hunt Test Lincolnton May 13 Welsh Springer Spaniel Club Hunt Test North Side of Lee Mad-dox Rd Jackson

IOWA April 6-7 Iowa Gun Dog Assoc NSTRA Tri-al Osceola April 13-15 Hawkeye Vizsla Club Trial Union County Ranch Thayer April 19-21 GSP Club Of Eastern Iowa Trial 2 Mile Snorth Of Shells-burg April 20-21 Iowa Brit-tany Club Hunt Test Steelclay shooting Sports LLC 3353 Plym-outh Avenue Eddyville April 20-21 Iowa Gun Dog Assoc NSTRA Tri-al Osceola April 27-28 High Lakes O u t d o o r A l l i a n c e NSTRA Trial Three Mile Lake Afton April 27-28 Northwest Iowa Retriever Club Hunt Test Larry Bullt-ners 2515 480th Webb May 4-5 Midwest Re-gional Elimination NSTRA Trial Osceola May 11-12 Heartland NAVHDA Skyl ine Sportsman’s Club 2556 150th St Thurman May 11 -12 I l lowa




Navhda NAVHDA Maquoketa May 18-19 Iowa Gun D o g A s s o c i a t i o n NSTRA Trial Osceola June 1-2 Hawkeye Navhda NAVHDA Test Searsboro

IDAHO April 6-7 GSP Club Of Idaho Trial Boise April 13-14 Treasure Valley Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Private Property Hwy 95 Paynette April 19-21 Idaho Re-triever Club Hunt Test Private Property 5951 S. Whitley Drive Fruit-land April 19-21 Idaho Re-triever Club Trial Pri-vate Property 5951 S. Whitley Drive Fruit-land April 20-23 GSP Club Of Idaho Trial Milepost #9 Hwy 95 Marsing April 27-1 AKC Point-ing Breed Gun Dog Championship Trial Milepost #9 Hwy 95 Marsing April 27-29 Idaho Brit-tany Club Trial Squaw Creek Recreation Area Highway 95 Mile Post 9 Marsing May 3-5 Treasure Val-ley NAVHDA Test No-tus May 4-5 Clearwater Pointing Dog Club NSTRA Trial Spokane

ILLINOIS April 5-7 Gateway GSP Club Trial Pyra-mid State Park Cap-tain Mine Area Pinck-neyville April 6-7 GSP Club Of Illinois Hunt Test Des Plaines WMA West Grounds Joliet April 13-14 Northern Illinois NSTRA Trial Rooster Haven April 13-14 Retrievers Unlimited Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Peabody River King StateFish & Wildlife Area 8900 Darmstadt Road 62264 New Ath-ens April 19 GSP Club Of Illinois Trial Des Plaines Cons Area east grnds Wilmington April 20-21 Vizsla Club Of IL Hunt Test Des Plaines WMA West Grounds Joliet April 20-21 Weima-raner Club Of North-ern IL Hunt Test Des Plaines Cons Area West I-55 Wilmington Rd Joliet April 21 Spoon River Navhda NAVHDA Test Whittington April 22-23 Spinone Club Of America Hunt Test County Line Hunt-ing 14547 Meadows Lane Macedonia April 24 Spinone Club Of America Trial Coun-

ty Line Hunting 14547 Meadows Lane Mace-donia April 26-28 River King Retriever Club Trial Pyramid State Park Captain Mine Area Pinckneyville April 27-28 Fox River Valley Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Richmond Hunt Club 5016 Rte 173 Richmond May 4-5 Northern Il-linois NSTRA Trial Rooster Haven

INDIANA April 12-14 Backwater Retriever Club Hunt Test Grassy Creek Ken-nels& Priate Grounds 2411 S St Rd 9 Albion April 13-14 Conserva-tion Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Conser-vation Bird Dog Club Amo April 13-14 Hoosier Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Glenns Valley Conservation & Gun Club 7115 Waver-ly Road Martinsville April 20-21 Glenns Valley Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Waverly April 20-21 Kanka-kee River Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Grand Kankakee Marsh 21690 Range Line Rd 46341 Hebron May 4-5 Pigeon River Kennel NSTRA Trial Pigeon River Kennels

Angola May 11 Conservation Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Conservation Bird Dog Club Amo May 18-19 Glenns Valley Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Waverly May 25-27 Conserva-tion Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Conser-vation Bird Dog Club Amo June 1-2 Kentuckiana NAVHDA NAVHDA Test Marengo June 8-9 Pigeon River Kennel NSTRA Trial Pigeon River Kennels Angola

KANSAS April 6-7 Saline County Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Salina April 13-14 Heart Of America GSP Club Hunt Test Hillsdale State Park Hillsdale April 26-28 Sunflower Retriever Club Hunt Test Flint Oak Hunting Preserve Fall River

KENTuCKY April 1-4 Somerset Bird Dog Club Trial Miller Welch WMA April 4-7 NBHA of Kentucky Trial Miller Welch WMA April 6-7 Kentuckiana Pointing Breeds As-sociation Hunt Test Don’s Hunting and Fishing Adventures Cecilia




April 6-7 Ohio County Quail Hunters NSTRA Trial Ohio County Quail Hunters Center-town April 6-7 Weimaraner Club Of Greater Lou-isville Hunt Test Don’s Hunting and Fishing Adventures Cecilia April 20-21 Ky Region Elimination NSTRA Trial Ohio Cty Quail Hunters Centertown May 3-5 Lincoln Trail Retriever Club Trial West KY WMA Graha-mville May 18-19 Central KY Bird Hunters NSTRA Trial Berry May 18-19 Ky Region Elimination NSTRA Trial Ohio Cty Quail Hunters Centertown

LOuISIANA April 6-7 Lake Charles Retriever Club Hunt Test Jennings April 6-7 North Louisi-ana Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Dugda-le Farms 147 Dugdale Road 71227 Choudrant March 9 Barry Farm NSTRA Trial Grand Coteau M A S S A C H u -SETTS April 6-7 Central New England Brittany Hunt Test Swift River Sports-mans Club Belcher-town April 13-15 Central

New England Brittany Club Trial Herm Covey Wildlife Management Area East St Belcher-town

MANITOBA May 25-26 Winnipeg Field Trial Club Re-triever Trial Win-Tona Kennels Anola June 1-2 Brandon Re-triever Club Trial Bran-don June 8-9 Manitoba Gun Dog Association Re-triever Trial Balmoral June 14-15 Devi ls Creek Flushing Dog Club Trial Teulon June 15-16 Manitoba Gun Dog Association Retriever Hunt test Balmoral

MARYLAND April 5-7 Weimaraner Club Of Wash DC Trial Indian Springs WMA Blair ’s Valley Tract Clear Springs April 13-14 Potomac NAVHDA Poolesville April 20-21 Poodle Club Of America Hunt Test Anatidae Farm 4635 Maiden Forest Road Rhodesdale April 27-29 Labrador Retriever Club Trial Rebel Ridge Farms Elk-ton May 11-13 Del Bay Re-triever Club Hunt Test C&D Retriever Trial Area Elkton May 18-19 Susque-

hanna Retriever Club Hunt Test Anatidae Farm 4635 Maiden For-est Road Rhodesdale May 25-27 Del Bay Re-triever Club Trial Rebel Ridge Farms Elkton

MAINE April 27-28 Central Maine Brittany Club Hunt Test Kennebunk Plains Kennebunk June 1-2 Sebasticook Navhda NAVHDA Test Smithfield June 7-9 Yankee Navh-da NAVHDA Test Bowdoinham WMA Wildes Rd Brunswik June 15-16 New Eng-land Seacoast Navhda NAVHDA Test Ken-nebunk

MICHIGAN April 1-5 American Brittany Club Trial Io-nia Rec Area Ionia April 5-7 Michigan Brittany Club Trial Io-nia Recreatonal Area Ionia April 6-7 Great Lakes Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Wings & Rings Pheasant Hunting Reserve 3365 146th Ave 49464 Zee-land April 6-7 Crosswind Kennels NSTRA Trial Wilco Pheasant Farm Coldwater April 13-14 Southern MI Weimaraner Club Hunt Test Highland

Recreation Area High-land April 27-28 Great Lakes American Water Span-iel Club Hunt Test Co-lonial Farms Chelsea May 3-5 Flat River Re-triever Club Trial 10357 Staines Road Fenwick May 4-5 Irish Setter Club Of Michigan Trial Highland Recreation Area Silo Course High-land May 11-12 Crosswind Kennels NSTRA Trial Mil-Run Farm Cold-water May 18 Southern MI Weimaraner Club Trial Highland Recreation Area Highland May 18-19 Michigan Flyways Retriever Club Hunt Test Omega Farms. Williamston June 15-16 Crosswind Kennels NSTRA Trial Wilco Pheasant Farm Coldwater

MINNESOTA May 4-5 GSP Club Of MN Trial Four Brooks Milaca April 6-7 MN Kick-off Classic NSTRA Trial Metz’s Pheasant Ha-ven Donnelly April 13-14 GSP Club Of MN Trial Crow Has-sen Park reserve Rog-ers April 20-21 MN Chukar Classic Open NSTRA Trial Minnesota Heart-




land Preserve Granite Falls April 27-28 MN Chukar Classic Open NSTRA Trial Minnesota Heart-land Preserve Granite Falls May 4-5 Quail Chal-lenge Open NSTRA Trial Metz’s Pheasant Haven Donnelly May 4-5 Southern MN Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Ed Wolske’s Locat ion 31087 145th St. Waseca May 10-12 Hennepin County Amateur Re-triever Club Trial Ben-ton Retriever Grounds Hwy 95 Princeton May 18-19 Minnesota Navhda NAVHDA Test Four Brooks WMA Milaca May 24-27 GSP Club Of MN Trial Crow Hassen Park Preserve Rogers June 7-9 Minnesota Field Trial Association Trial Benton Retriever Grounds Princeton June 8-9 Minnesota Navhda NAVHDA Test Kelly Farms Hugo June 14-16 St Croix Navhda NAVHDA Test Kelly Farms 1425 155th Street North Hugo May 25-26 West Cen-tral Minnesota Re-triever Club Trial Club Headquarters located 9F Sportsmens Club Morris

MISSOuRI April 6-7 Bob Brown Field Trial Grounds NSTRA Trial Madison April 12-14 Kansas City Retriever Club Trial Wood Dale Farms 1400 W. Henry Sedalia April 12-14 NBHA Midwest Regional Trial April 13-14 Weimara-ner Club Of Greater Kansas City Hunt Test Route 8 Hillsdale March 16-17 Show-Me Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Walker Farms Clarence April 19-21 Missouri River Retriever Club Hunt Test Whetstone Creek Conservation Williamsburg April 20-21 Missouri Kansas Regional Elimi-nation NSTRA Trial Adrian May 11-12 Missouri Uplands NAVHDA Huntsville May 17-19 Southwest Missouri Retriever Club Hunt Test Spring-field June 15-16 Bob Brown Field Trial Grounds NSTRA Trial Madison

MISSISSIPPI Apri l 13-14 South Mississippi Retriev-er Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Baggett Property 3277 Loch Leven Rd Sumrall May 11-12 Mid South

Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Cool-water Farm Bruce

MONTANA April 6-7 Glacier Gun Dog Club NSTRA Trial Polson April 6-7 Missouri Headwaters Gun Dog Club Spaniel Trial Clarkston April 13-14 Savage Chukar Trial Open NSTRA Trial Savage April 20-21 Yellow-stone Pointer Club NSTRA Trial Acton May 4-5 Golden Trian-gle Sporting Dog Club NSTRA Trial Great Falls May 17 Central Mon-tana Pointing Dog Club NSTRA Trial Great Falls May 18-19 Big Sky Region Elimination NSTRA Trial Great Falls May 24-26 Western Montana Retriever Club Trial Ronan Field Trial Grounds Ronan May 25-27 Big Sky Navhda NAVHDA Test Great Falls June 8-9 Montana Sharpta i l Navhda NAVHDA Test White-fish July 12-14 Treasure State Retriever Club Trial Bob Sparks Re-triever Grounds 10 Miles North Of Butte

May 18-19 Montana Sharpta i l Navhda NAVHDA Test Billings

NEW BRuNSWICK

June 7 Sunpoke Hunt-ing Retriever Hunt Test Minto June 8-9 Sunpoke Hunting Retriever Tri-al Minto June 15-16 Moncton Retriever Club Hunt Test Riverview

NORTH CAROLINA

April 6-7 Backwoods Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test April 12-14 Down East Hunting Retriever Trial Pen Brook Farm Rocky Point April 13-14 Eastern Carolina Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Henderson April 20-21 Neuse Re-triever Club Hunt Test Neuseway Park 401 West Caswell St Kin-ston

NORTH DAKOTA

May 11-12 Badlands Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Badland Bird Dog Club Williston May 11-12 ND Bad-lands Classic NSTRA Trial Badland Bird Dog Club Williston May 25 Mid North Regional Elimination




NSTRA Trial Prairie Pothole Lodge Oakes May 26-27 Mid North Memorial Day Classic NSTRA Trial Prairie Pothole Lodge Oakes June 15-16 Red River Valley Navhda NAVH-DA Test Fort Ransom

NEBRASKA April 6-7 Gordon Set-ter Club Of America Hunt Test Tim Brewer Farm 72146 633 Av-enue Humboldt April 13-14 Rock Creek FTA NSTRA Trial Wa-verly April 19-25 Missouri Valley Brittany Club Trial Branched Oak Dog Trial Area Ray-mond April 20-21 Platte Riv-er Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Golden Points Ranch North Platte May 3-5 Missouri Val-ley Hunt Club Retriev-er Trial South of Valley Valley May 25-26 Rock Creek FTA NSTRA Trial Wa-verly May 27-28 Rock Creek Field Trial NSTRA Trial Waverly

NEW HAMPSHIRE

May 24-26 Merrimack Valley Navhda NAVH-DA Test Sharpe’s Farm Hopkinton

NEW JERSEY April 13-14 Vizsla Club Of Greater NY Hunt Test Assunpink WMA Clarksburg April 20-21 Eastern GSP Club Hunt Test Buttonwood Game Preserve 175 Button-wood Lane Phillips-burg May 4-5 Pinelands Retriever Club of NJ Hunt Test Winslow WMA Winslow June 8-9 Delaware Val-ley Navhda NAVH-DA Test Colliers Mills WMA Jackson

NEW MExICO April 6-7 Zia NAVH-DA Fort Crag Rd San Marcial

NOvA SCOTIA May 4-6 Nova Sco-tia Pointing Dog Club Trial John River May 10-12 Prince Ed-ward Interprovincial Springer Spaniel Club Trial Gospel Rd Johns River May 25-26 Eastern Fly-way Hunting Retriever Hunt Test Shubena-cadie June 29-30 Eastern Fly-way Hunting Retriever Club Trial Brooklyn

NEvADA April 19-22 GSP Club Of America Trial Hun-gry Valley Grounds Reno May 2-5 Sierra Nevada

Retriever Club Hunt Test Harmon Reservoir Fallon New York April 27-28 Long Is-land GSP Club Hunt Test David Sarhoff Pre-serve Rt 104 S River-head May 11-12 Long Island Pointing Dog Field Tri-al Club Trial Sarhoff Preserve Route 104 S Southampton May 18-19 F inger Lakes NAVHDA Test Alabama May 18-19 Southern Adirondack Navhda NAVHDA Test Greene June 21-23 Long Is-land Golden Retriever Club Hunt Test Otis Pike Preserve Exit 69 Manorville

OHIO April 13-14 Three Riv-ers Bird Dog Club NSTRA Trial Three Rivers Bird Dog Club 501 Yellow Springs Fairfield Rd. Fairborn April 19-21 Buckeye GSP Club Trial Tri Val-leyWildlife Area Dres-den April 19-21 Ohio Valley Retriever Club Trial Woodbury Wildlife Area Coshocton April 19-21 Ohio Valley Retriever Club Hunt Test Woodbury Wild-life Area Coshocton April 20-21 Greater

Cincinnati Weimaraner Club Hunt Test West Alexandria April 20-21 Mid-Ohio NAVHDA Delaware April 20-21 Wayne County Coon Hunters NSTRA Trial Wayne County Coon Hunt-ers 4990 Secrest Rd. Wooster April 20-2 West Cen-tral Ohio Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Indian Lake State Park 6210 St Rt 235 N 43333 Lewistown April 26-28 GSP Club Of Ohio Trial Tri Val-leyWildlife Area Dres-den May 4-5 Wayne County Coon Hunters NSTRA Trial Wayne County Coon Hunters 4990 Secrest Rd. Wooster May 18-19 Appala-chian Valley NAVHDA NAVHDA Shade May 25-26 Buckeye Navhda NAVHDA Test Mingo Sportsman’s Club Bloomingdale June 8-9 Cuyahoga Val-ley Golden Retriever Club Hunt Test Run-ning Grounds 14849 R o c k C re e k R o a d Hambden

ONTARIO April 6 Luther Marsh Hunting Retriever Hunt Test On Point Game Farm Grand Val-ley




April 27-28 Barilla Kennel Club NSTRA Trial Barilla Kennels Metcalf May 3-5 Niagara Pen-insula Retriever Train-ing Club Trial Allan-burg May 4-5 Onpoint Ken-nels NSTRA Trial On-point Kennels Mallo-rytown May 4-5 Ontario All Pointing Breed Field Dog Club Hunt Test Norwood May 9-12 South West-ern Ontario Retriever Training Club Trial Hullet Prov. Wildlife Area Melbourne May 11-12 Eastern On-tario Retriever Club Hunt Test Westport May 11 Mill Creek Re-triever Club Hunt Test Puslinch May 11-12 Ontario Grand River Navhda NAVHDA Test Luther Marsh Grand Valley May 11-12 Vizsla So-ciety Of Ontario Hunt Test Norwood May 16 Labrador Re-triever Club of Central Ontario Trial Shan-nonville May 18-19 Eastern On-tario Retriever Club Trial Westport May 18-19 GSP Club Of Canada Hunt Test Grand Valley May 18-19 South West-

ern Ontario Spaniel Trial Fisherville May 24-26 Pine Ridge Retriever Club Trial Brighton May 25-26 Barilla Ken-nel Club NSTRA Trial Barilla Kennels Metcalf May 25-26 Central On-tario Spaniel Club Trial Erin May 25-26 Labrador Owners Club Retriever Hunt Test Tiny Marsh Puslinch May 25-26 Mill Creek Retriever Club Hunt Test Puslinch May 25-26 Toronto On-tario Navhda NAVH-DA Test Port Perry June 1-2 Horseshoe H u n t i n g R e t r i e v -er Club Hunt Test Puslinch June 1-2 Ottawa Val-ley Pointing Dog Club Hunt Test Maxville June 1-2 Sudbury & District Kennel Club Spaniel Trial Sudbury June 7-9 Long Point Re-triever Training Club Trial Port Rowan June 8-9 Grouse Creek Farm NSTRA Trial Grouse Creek Farm June 14-16 EPs Train-ing Associates Retriev-er Hunt Test Powassan June 15-16 Central On-tario Spaniel Club Trial Erin June 15-16 Mountain

Valley Retriever Train-ing Club Hunt Test Christie Conservation Area Dundas June 15-16 Ottawa Re-triever Club Trial Mer-rickville June 15-16 Vizsla So-ciety Of Ontario Hunt Test Norwood June 20-23 York Re-triever Field Trial Club Trial Wyebridge June 22-23 Barilla Ken-nel Club NSTRA Trial Barilla Kennels Metcalf June 22 Labrador Own-ers Club Hunt Test Flamboro June 22-23 Mill Creek Retriever Club Hunt Test Puslinch June 29-30 Ottawa Val-ley Golden Retriever Club Hunt Test 255 Bowland Rd Clayton

OREGON April 6-11 Oregon Brit-tany Club Trial Boyce Corral Madras April 13-14 Rogue Valley Retriever Club Hunt Test Denman Game Management Area White City April 26-29 Rogue Val-ley Retriever Club Trial Denman Game WMA White City May 3-5 Willamette Valley Navhda NAVH-DA Test Corvallis May 10-12 Oregon Re-triever Trial Trial Sau-vie Island East Unit

Sauvie Island Portland June 1-2 Treasure Val-ley NAVHDA Test Baker PENNSYLvANIA April 6-7 Schuylkill Valley GSP Club Hunt Test Freeland Kennel Club Weatherly April 13-14 Mason-Dixon English Cocker Spaniel Club Trial Hill Country Whitetails Preserve Blue Ridge Summit April 13-14 Weimara-ner Club Of Greater Cleveland Hunt Test Harrisonville April 15 American Pointer Club Trial 3200 Fork Road Wellsville April 16 American Pointer Club Hunt Test 3200 Fork Road Wells-ville April 27-28 High Fly-ers Hunting Retriever Club Hunt Test Hohm-an-Gargasz Properties Black Run Rd Grove City April 27-28 Mid-At-lantic Hunting Spaniel Club Trial Jacobus May 4-5 Keystone Navhda NAVHDA Test 7732 Carlisle Rd Gettysburg June 1-2 Presque Isle Retriever Club Of Erie Hunt Test 14849 Rock-creek Rd. Springboro June 1-2 Shenango Navhda NAVHDA Test




Snyder Coal Company Grounds Barkleyville

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

June 1-2 Prince Ed-ward Island Retriever Club Hunt Test York June 1 Prince Edward Island Retriever Club Trial Charlottetown June 30 GSP Club Of Canada Hunt Test West Royalty

QuEBEC May 25-26 Club Du Chien D’arret Des Lau-rentides Hunt Test St Canut May 25-26 Club Du Chien Rapporteur Monteregie Hunt Test St Michel June 7-9 Montreal Navhda NAVHDA Test Acton Vale June 8-9 Club De Chein Rapporteur De L’estrie CCre Hunt Test Ogden June 8 -9 C lub de l’Epagneul Breton Inc Hunt Test Mirabel June 29-30 Club De Chein Rapporteur Monteregie Hunt Test St-Thomas de Joliette

SOuTH CAROLINA

April 5-7 2nd Annual Ken Bearden Memo-rial Trial NSTRA Trial Seneca April 6-7 Palmetto Pointing Breed Club

Hunt Test 106 White-tail Dr 106 Whitetail Dr Walhalla April 6-7 Palmetto Re-triever Club Hunt Test H Cooper Black Jr FT Area Cheraw April 27-28 Carolina Retriever Association Hunt Test The House of Elliott’s Labradors Mullins May 4-5 Labrador Re-triever Club Of The Piedmont Hunt Test H Cooper Black Jr Me-morial FT Grounds Patrick SOuTH DAKOTA May 18-19 South Dako-ta Hunting Dog Club Hunt Test Running Grounds 100-294 S El-lis Rd Sioux Falls May 31-2 Midwest Tri-State Navhda NAVH-DA Test Sioux Falls SASKATCHEWA

June 21-23 Saskatch-ewan Retriever Clubs Assn Trial Bradwell

TENNESSEE May 3-5 Northeast Tennessee Retriever Club Trial Chad Baker Property Bristol April 13-14 Tennessee River Hunting Retriev-er Club Hunt Test April 16-18 Labrador Retriever Club Trial Grand Junction April 18 Gordon Setter Club Of America Hunt Test Dunlap

May 25-26 East Ten-nessee Retriever Club Hunt Test Blythe Ferry WMA Birchwood

TExAS April 5-7 Bluebonnet Retriever Club Trial Vinwood Land An-derson April 5-7 Metro Alli-ance Retriever Club Trial Pin Oak Kennels Ravenna April 5-7 Rose Country Retriever Club Of East Texas Trial Big Woods 14809 W FM Tennessee Colony April 6-7 Big D Hunt-ing Retriever Club Hunt Test Decatur April 6-7 Bryan-Col-lege Station Retriever Club Hunt Test Wake-field Ranch 8756 FM 974 77808 Bryan April 6 Greater Hous-ton Golden Retriever Club Hunt Test Hid-den Lake 2283 Hidden Lake Lane Anderson April 6-7 Gulf Coast Bird Dog Association NSTRA Trial Fuller Ranch Gidding April 12-14 Brazosport Retriever Club Trial 4408 Kasmiersky Rd. Fayetteville April 12-13 Metro Al-liance Retriever Club Hunt Test Pin Oak Kennels Ravenna April 13-14 Amarillo Bird Dog Club NSTRA

Trial Amarillo April 13-14 Ravens Way Hunting Retriev-er Club Hunt Test 7J Stockfarm Inc Rt2 Box 251 Madisonville Apri l 13-14 Texas NAVHDA Decatur April 20-21 Alamo Re-triever Club Hunt Test Lonesome Deer Ranch 5003 County Rd 5232 D Hanis April 20-24 Hunting Retriever Club Spring G r a n d H u n t Te s t Schmidt Farms Hwy 67 Simms April 20-21 Shreve-port-Bossier Retriever Club Hunt Test Willett & Nissen Properties Marshall April 27-28 Tejas Hunt-ing Retriever Club Hunt Test Red Dog Ranch Northrup May 4 Heart Of Texas Retriever Club Hunt Test Glaser Fish Farm FM 1915 Buckholts May 4-5 South Plains Pointer Club NSTRA Trial Southwest Texas Bird Dog Club Winters May 11-12 Port Arthur Retriever Club Trial Lohman Ranch Brous-sard Farms Hampshire

uTAH M a y 3 - 5 Wa s a t c h Mountain NAVHDA Test Salt Lake City April 20-21 Greater Utah Pointing Dog




NSTRA Trial Roosevelt May 18-19 Weber River Retriever Hunt Test Stella’s Duck Club West of Brigham City Corinne

vIRGINIA April 12-14 Rappahan-nock River Retriever Club Hunt Test Shady Grove Hunting Pre-serve 11986 Lucky Hill Road Remington April 19-21 Tidewater Retriever Club Trial Ferguson property 4526 Brink Road Fer-guson property Em-poria April 26-28 Back Bay- Knotts Island Retriever Club Hunt Test Rem-ington WASHINGTON

April 12-14 Northwest Retriever Club Trial Monroe & Duvall Fall City April 13-14 GSP Club Of Washington Trial Anderson Ranch Hwy 241 Sunnyside April 13-14 Whid Isle Brittany Club Trial BLM Goose Butte Man-agement Unit Ritzville April 16-17 Inland Empire Brittany Club Trial BLM Goose Butte WMA Ritzville Apri l 20-21 Snake River Sportsman And Gun Dog Club NSTRA Trial Asotin Cty Wing Shooters Asotin

April 20-21 Whistling Wings Hunting Re-triever Club Hunt Test Bob Pepper ’s Farm 10480 W Snoqualmie Road 98014 Carnation April 27-28 Greater Seattle Gun Dog Club NSTRA Trial Moses Lake May 17-19 Paci f ic Northwest Navhda NAVHDA Test Larry Masons 826 Cinebar Rd Silver Creek May 18-19 Three Riv-ers BDC NSTRA Trial Owens Farm Kenne-wick June 15 Snake River Sportsman And Gun Dog Club NSTRA Tri-al Asotin Cty Wing Shooters Asotin

WISCONSIN April 3-7 12 O’clock Field Trial Club Trial Pine Island Portage April 6-7 Wolf River Game Farm NSTRA Trial Wolf River Game Farm W6796 State Rd 156 Navarino April 12-14 Central Wis Vizsla Club Trial Pine Island WMA Portage April 13-14 Greater Milwaukee Brittany Club Trial Bong Rec Area Kansasville April 13-14 Green Bay Pointing Dog Club Trial Fox Ridge Game Farm Oconto Falls April 14 GSP Club Of

WI Hunt Test Ottawa Field Trial Grounds Hwy 67 and 106 Eagle April 20-21 12 O’clock Field Trial Club Trial Magnolia Game Farm Evansville April 20-21 Fox River Valley Hunting Retr Hunt Test Bong Rec Area Hwy 142 & Hwy 75 Kansasville April 20-21 Kettle Mo-raine English Setter Club Hunt Test Ottawa Field Trial Grounds Hwy 67 and 106 Eagle April 20-21 Minnesota English Setter Club Hunt Test Good Going Hunt Club Baldwin April 27-28 12 O’clock Field Trial Club Tri-al Wing Haven Hunt Club Burnett April 27-28 Gordon Setter Club Of America Hunt Test Pine Island Field Trial Grounds Portage April 27-28 West Al-lis Training Kennel Club Retriever Hunt Test Club Gnds S 73 W24150 National Ave Big Bend April 27-28 Wolf River Game Farm NSTRA Trial Wolf River Game Farm W6796 State Rd 156 Navarino May 4-5 Green Bay Pointing Dog Club Tri-al Scarborough May 9-10 Northstar

Weimaraner Club Tri-al Ottawa FT Grouds Hwy 67 & 106 Eagle May 11-12 12 O’clock Field Trial Club Trial Dale Creek Gun Dogs Burlington May 11-12 Fox Valley Retriever Club Hunt Test Bong Rec Area Kansasville May 17-19 Manitowoc County Kennel Club Retriever Hunt Test Manitowoc Kennel Club Valders May 25-27 Wis Amat Field Trial Club Trial Club Gnds Highway 33 & Nobel RD Hori-con May 25-27 Wisconsin Amateur Field Trial Club Hunt Test Club Gnds Highway 33 & Nobel Rd Horicon June 1-2 Brew City Navhda NAVHDA Test Kansasville June 1-2 North Cen-tral Wisconsin Navhda NAVHDA Test Mead Wildlife Area Junction City June 8-9 Kettle Mo-raine Navhda NAVH-DA Test Lomira June 16-22 National Amateur Retriever Club Trial Mondovi




Dog Shows

ALASKA May 25-27 Tanana Valley Kennel Club Show Tanana Valley Fairgrounds 2 College Road Fairbanks June 22-23 Alaska Ken-nel Club Show South A n c h o r a g e H i g h School 13400 Elmore Rd. Anchorage July 14 Kenai Kennel Club Inc Show Park-ing Lot Sky View High School Sterling High-way Mile 89 Soldotna July 26-28 Cook In-let Kennel Club Show F a i rg ro u n d s 2 0 7 5 Glenn HighwayMile 40 Palmer

ALABAMA April 4-6 Tuscaloosa Kennel Club Show Shelby County Exhi-bition Center 1 Argo Road Columbiana April 5-7 Birmingham Kennel Club Inc. Show Shelby County Exhi-bition Center 1 Argo Road Columbiana

ARKANSAS April 20-21 North Ar-kansas Kennel Club Show NW Arkansas District Fairgrounds 1400 Fair Ground Rd Harrison June 15-16 Kennel Club of Texarkana Inc. Show

Fairgrounds Loop 245 Texarkana Sept 28-29 Hot Springs National Park Kennel Club Show Conven-tion Center 134 Con-vention Boulevard Hot Springs

ARIzONA April 5-6 Kachina Ken-nel Club Show Cam-elback Ranch Facility 10710 W Camelback Rd Phoenix April 7-8 Arrowhead Kennel Club Show Camelback Ranch Fa-cility 10710 W Camel-back Rd Phoenix June 8-9 Flagstaff Ken-nel Club Show Co-conino County Fair-grounds Fort Tuthill County Park Flagstaff Nov 10-11 Canada Del Oro Kennel Club Show Rillito Park CO Park 4502 North 1st Ave. Tucson

CALIFORNIA April 6-7 Yosemite Ken-nel Club Show Merced County Fairgrounds 11th & Martin Luther King Way Merced April 13-14 Sacramen-to Kennel Club Show Cal Expo Fairgrounds & Center 1600 Exposi-tion Blvd Sacramento April 18-19 Angeles

Canyon Dog Club Show Industry Hills Exposi t ion Center 16200 Temple Ave City of Industry April 20-21 Burbank Kennel Club Show Expo Center 16200 Temple Ave City of Industry Apri l 20-21 Chief Solano Kennel Club Show Solano County Fairgrounds 900 Fair-grounds Drive Vallejo A p r i l 2 7 - 2 8 L a k e Mathews Kennel Club Inc Show Prado Re-gional Park 16700 S Euclid Ave Chino May 4-5 Gavilan Ken-nel Club Show Bolado Park 9000 Airline Hwy Tres Pinos May 4-5 Rio Hondo Kennel Club Show Cal-Poly University 3801 W Temple Ave Pomona May 11-12 Apple Val-ley Kennel Club Show Victor Valley College 18422 Bear Valley Road Victorville May 11 Camellia Capi-tal Kennel Club Show Yolo County Fair-grounds Exhibit Hall Woodland May 12 Santa Cruz K e n n e l C l u b I n c . Show Yolo County

Fairgrounds 900 Fair-grounds Drive Wood-land May 18-19 Coyote Hil ls Kennel Club Show Solano County Fairgrounds 900 Fair-grounds Drive Vallejo May 18-19 Mt. Palo-mar Kennel Club Show Bates Nut Farm 15954 Woods Valley RD Val-ley Center May 24 Los Encinos Kennel Club Inc. Show Los Angeles Coun-ty Fairplex 1101 W. McKinley Ave. Pomo-na May 25-26 Hangtown Kennel Club of Pla-cerville CA Show El Dorado County Fair-grounds 100 Placer-ville Drive Placerville May 26 San Fernando Kennel Club Show Los Angeles County Fair-plex 1101 W. McKinley Ave. Pomona May 27 Kennel Club of the California Si-erra Show El Dorado County Fairgrounds 100 Placerville Drive Placerville May 27 San Gabriel Valley Kennel Club Show Los Angeles County Fairplex 1101 W. McKinley Ave. Po-mona May 30-31 Butte Coun-ty Kennel Club Show Butte County Fair-grounds 199 E Hazel




Gridley June 1-2 Kennel Club of Pasa-dena Show Brookside Park Ar-royo Blvd & Seco St Pasadena June 1-2 Shasta Kennel Club Show Butte County Fair-grounds 199 E Hazel Gridley June 6-7 Lake County Kennel Club of Northern California Show Sonoma County Fair-grounds 900 Fairgrounds Drive Vallejo June 8-9 Contra Costa County Kennel Club Inc. Show Solano County Fairgrounds 900 Fair-grounds Drive Vallejo June 15-16 Bahia Sur Kennel Club of Chula Vista Show Southwestern College 900 Otay Lakes Road Chula Vista July 13-14 Del Monte Kennel Club Inc Show Carmel Middle School Carmel Valley Road Carmel Aug 3-4 Richmond Dog Fanci-ers Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 655 S 1 Street Dixon Aug 24-25 Santa Barbara Ken-nel Club Inc Show Earl Warren Showgrounds Las Positas Road Santa Barbara Aug 26 Conejo Kennel Club Show Earl Warren Show-grounds Las Positas Road Santa Barbara Aug 31-1 Gold Country Kennel Club Show Nevada County Fairgrounds 11228 McCourtney Rd Grass Valley Sept 28-29 San Luis Obispo Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 2198 Riverside Ave Paso Robles Oct 26 Kennel Club of Riverside Show Lake Perris State Recre-ation Area 17801 Lake Perris

Dr Perris COLORADO

April 13-14 Terry-All Kennel Club Inc. Show Adams County Fairgrounds 9755 Henderson RD Brighton May 17-19 Durango Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 30100 Highway 160 Cortez May 31 Metro Mile Hi Kennel Club Show Boulder County Fairgrounds Nelson Rd & 95th St Longmont June 1-2 Flatirons Kennel Club Show Boulder County Fair-grounds Nelson Rd & 95th St Longmont July 13-14 Roaring Fork Kennel Club Inc Show Eagle River Cen-ter 794 Fairgrounds Road Eagle Sept 8 Evergreen Colorado Ken-nel Club Show Island Grove Regional Park 501 N. 14th Ave Greeley Oct 26-27 Buckhorn Valley Ken-nel Club Show Island Grove Regional Park 501 N. 14th Ave Greeley

CONNECTICuT May 10-11 St. Hubert Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Wyas-sup Road N Stonington May 12 Windham County Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Stonebridge Rd Woodstock June 8 Greenwich Kennel Club Show Taylor Farm Park Can-field Ave Norwalk

DELAWARE April 26-27 Wilmington Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Lums Pond State Park 1068 Howell School Rd Bear April 28 Penn Treaty Kennel

Club Inc. Show Lums Pond State Park 1068 Howell School Rd Bear

FLORIDA April 6-7 Greater Orange Park Dog Club Show Fairgrounds 5840 State Rd 207 Elkton April 20 Heartland Dog Club of Florida Show Pioneer Park Corner of US 17 and FL 64 Zolfo Springs April 27-28 Treasure Coast Ken-nel Club of Florida Inc. Show Fairgrounds 7955 58th Ave. Vero Beach April 18-19 Inverness Florida Kennel Club Show Florida Classic Park 5360 Lockhart Road Brooksville May 25-26 Greater Fort My-ers Dog Club Show Lee Civic Center 11831 Bayshore Rd N Fort Myers June 8-9 Boca Raton Dog Club Inc Show South County Re-gional Park 12551 Glades Rd. Boca Raton June 15-16 St. Petersburg Dog Fanciers Association Inc. Show Fairgrounds 4800 N US Hwy 301 Tampa June 22 Central Florida Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 4603 W Colonial Drive Orlando June 23 Space Coast Kennel Club of Palm Bay Show Fair-grounds 4603 W Colonial Drive Orlando July 13-14 Jupiter-Tequesta Dog Club Show Fairgrounds 9067 Southern Blvd. West Palm Beach Sept 21-22 West Volusia Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Int 4 & Rt 44 Deland




Oct 12 Greater Ven-ice Florida Dog Club Show Turner Agri-Civic Center 2250 N.E. Roan Street Arcadia Nov 16-17 Greater Ocala Dog Club Inc. Show Greater Ocala Dog Show Grounds Eastside CR 25A N 2 3mi N of SR 326 Ocala Nov 23-24 Brandon Florida Kennel Club Show Florida Straw-berry Festival 303 Lem-on St. Plant City Dec 11 Space Coast Kennel Club of Palm Bay Show Convention Center 9800 Interna-tional Drive Orlando

GEORGIA April 11-12 Valdosta Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 401 Larry Walker Parkway Val-dosa May 4-5 Oconee Riv-er Kennel Club Show Oconee Heritage Park Hwy 441 S Watkins-ville May 9 Columbus Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 401 Larry Walker Parkway Perry May 10 Southeast Al-abama Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 401 Larry Walker Parkway Perry May 11-12 Macon Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 401 Larry Walker Parkway Perry

Aug 22 Griffin Georgia Kennel Club Show At-lanta Exposition Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd Atlanta Aug 23 Sawnee Moun-tain Kennel Club of Georgia Show Atlanta Exposition Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd At-lanta Aug 24 Lawrencev-ille Kennel Club Inc. Show Atlanta Exposi-tion Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd Atlanta Aug 25 Conyers Ken-nel Club of Georgia Show Atlanta Exposi-tion Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd Atlanta Oct 18 Douglasville Kennel Club of Geor-gia Show Atlanta Ex-position Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd At-lanta Oct 20 Newnan Ken-nel Club Show Atlanta Exposition Cntr South 3850 Jonesboro Rd At-lanta

HAWAII April 27-28 Valley Isle Kennel Club of Maui Show Kihei Elemen-tary School 250 East Lipoa Street Kihei Aug 17-18 West Oahu Kennel Club Show Bar-bers Point Elementary School Ewa Aug 31-1 Hawaiian Kennel Club Show Neal S Blaisdell Cen-ter 777 Ward Avenue

Honolulu Sept 2 Valley Isle Ken-nel Club of Maui Show Neal S Blaisdell Center 777 Ward Avenue Ho-nolulu

IOWA April 20-21 Waterloo Kennel Club Inc. Show National Cattle Con-gress 257 Ansborough Avenue Waterloo April 27-28 Heart of Iowa Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 12th Ave & Olive Sy Mar-shalltown June 22-23 Hawkeye Kennel Club Show F a i rg ro u n d s 3 1 4 9 South Riverside Drive Iowa City July 13-14 Southeast-ern Iowa Kennel Club Show Bridge View Center 102 Church St Ottumwa Aug 30-31 Tri-City Kennel Club Inc. Show Convention Center 39 38th Ave Amana Sept 1-2 Cedar Rap-ids Kennel Association Inc. Show Convention Center 39 38th Ave Amana Sept 7-8 Des Moines Kennel Club Inc. Show Iowa State Fairgrounds E 30th & Grand Av-enue Des Moines Oct 12-13 Mason City Kennel Club Show N o r t h I o w a F a i r-grounds All Seasons

Highway 18 West 3700 4th St SW Mason City

IDAHO April 19-20 Palouse Hills Dog Fanciers Inc. Show Nez Perce Coun-ty Fairgrounds 13th St & Burrell Ave Lewiston April 21-22 Lewis-Clark Kennel Club Inc. Show Nez Perce County Fairgrounds 13th St & Burrell Ave Lewiston M a y 2 7 - 2 8 C o e u r d’Alene Dog Fanci-ers Show Kootenai County Fairgrounds N 4060 Government Way Coeur D’Alene June 13-14 Eagle Rock Kennel Club Show Eastern Idaho Fair-grounds ` Blackfoot June 15-16 Pocatello Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern Idaho Fair-grounds ` Blackfoot July 13-14 Inland Em-pire Kennel Associa-tion Inc. Show Kootenai County Fairgrounds N 4060 Government Way Coeur D’Alene

ILLINOIS April 6-7 Kennel Club of Yorkville Illinois Show Northern Illi-nois University Lin-coln Hwy and Annie Glidden Rd De Kalb April 25-27 Champaign Illinois Kennel Club Show Progress City USA 4275 E Mound Rd.




Decatur April 26 Sandemac Kennel Club Show Progress City USA 4275 E Mound Rd. De-catur April 28 Mattoon Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Progress City USA 4275 E Mound Rd. Decatur May 11-12 Scott County Kennel Club Inc. Show QCCA Expo Center 2621 4th Avenue Rock Island May 24-26 Illinois Val-ley Kennel Club of Peoria Inc. Show Inter-state Center 2301 West Market Bloomington May 25-27 Corn Belt Kennel Club Show In-terstate Center 2301 West Market Bloom-ington June 1-2 Fox River Val-ley Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Be-tween Rt 120 & City Rt 14 Woodstock June 8-9 Wheaton Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 2015 West Manchester Rd Whea-ton June 14-16 Little Fort Kennel Club of Wauke-gan Show Fairgrounds 1060 E. Peterson Road Grayslake July 6-7 Greater DeKalb Kennel Club Show Northern Illinois Uni-versity Lincoln Hwy and Annie Glidden Rd De Kalb

July 12 Blackhawk Kennel Club Inc. Show F a i rg ro u n d s 8 7 9 1 Route 76 Fairgrounds Rd Belvidere July 13-14 Kishwaukee Kennel Club Inc. Show F a i rg ro u n d s 8 7 9 1 Route 76 Fairgrounds Rd Belvidere Oct 12-13 Kankakee River Val ley Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 1390 East 2000 NorthFork Rd Watseka Oct 17-20 Illinois Capi-tol Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Peor ia Rd Bus 55 Springfield

INDIANA April 13-14 Steel City Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 889 S. Court Street Crown Point April 18-20 Terre Haute Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds U S 41 South Terre Haute April 19-21 Blooming-ton Indiana Kennel Club Inc. Show Fair-grounds U S 41 South Terre Haute May 18 Kokomo Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 610 East Pay-ton Street Greentown June 1-2 Southern Indi-ana Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Capital Avenue Corydon June 23 Berrien Ken-nel Club Show Fair-

grounds 215 E. Divi-sion Rd Michiana Ken-nel Club Aug 15-17 Muncie Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds N Wheel-ing Ave Muncie Sept 14 Greater Lafay-ette Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 1300 E 100 S Lebanon Sept 21-22 Kennel Club of Columbus Indiana Show Hoosier Horse Park 7105 S. Kern Street Edinburgh Oct 26-27 Valparaiso Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 215 E. Di-vision Rd Valparaiso

KANSAS April 5 Hutchinson Kennel Club Inc. Show Kansas Coliseum 1229 E 85th St North Valley Center April 6 Salina Kennel Club Inc. Show Kansas Coliseum 1229 E 85th St North Valley Center April 7-8 Wichita Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Kansas Coliseum 1229 E 85th St North Valley Center May 11-12 Sunflower Kennel Club of Olathe Kansas Show Kansas Expocentre One Expo-centre Drive Topeka Aug 16-18 Greater Em-poria Kennel Club Inc. Show Kansas Expo-centre One Expocentre Drive Topeka

Aug 17-19 Jesse James Kennel Club Show Kansas Expocentre One Expocentre Drive Topeka Aug 22-24 Topeka Ken-nel Club Show Kansas Expocentre One Expo-centre Drive Topeka Aug 23-25 Manhattan Kansas Kennel Club Show Kansas Expo-centre One Expocentre Drive Topeka Kentucky May 16-17 Paducah Kennel Club Inc. show Paducah Kennel Club Building 1325 Fisher Rd. Paducah Aug 24-25 Owens-boro’s River City Ken-nel Club Show Hines Center One Wellness Drive Philpot

LOuISIANA April 19-20 Shreveport Kennel Club Inc. Show Bossier Civic Center 620 Benton Road Boss-ier City April 21-22 D’Arbonne Kennel Club Show Bossier Civic Center 620 Benton Road Boss-ier City June 6-7 Calcasieu Kennel Club Inc. Show Burton Coliseum 7001 Gulf Hwy Lake Charles June 8-9 Acadiana Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Burton Coliseum 7001 Gulf Hwy Lake Charles Aug 1-3 Metairie Ken-




nel Club Inc. Show Pontchartrain Center 4550 Williams Boule-vard Kenner Aug 30-31 Bayou Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Civic Center 401 Lea Joyner Memorial Ex-pressway Monroe Sept 1-2 Vicksburg Kennel Club of Missis-sippi Inc. Show Civic Center 401 Lea Joyner Memorial Expressway Monroe M A S S A C H u -SETTS April 6 Troy Kennel Club Show Eastern S t a t e s E x p o s i t i o n Grounds 1305 Memo-rial Ave West Spring-field April 7 Trap Falls Ken-nel Club Show East-ern States Exposition Grounds 1305 Memori-al Ave West Springfield April 19 Springfield Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield April 20 Pioneer Valley Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield April 21 South Wind-sor Kennel Club Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West

Springfield June 1-2 Ladies’ Dog Club Inc. Show Fair-grounds Emerald St Wrentham June 14-15 North Shore Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Newbury-port Turnpike Tops-field June 16 Middlesex County Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Newburyport Turn-pike Topsfield June 27-30 Wampa-noag Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Em-erald St Wrentham June 28-29 Hockamock Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Emerald St Wrentham July 4 Holyoke Kennel Club Inc. Show East-ern States Exposition Grounds 1305 Memori-al Ave West Springfield July 5 Kenilworth Ken-nel Club of Connecti-cut Inc. Show East-ern States Exposition Grounds 1305 Memori-al Ave West Springfield July 6 Farmington Val-ley Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Exposition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield Aug 3 Pioneer Valley Kennel Club Inc. Show Greenfield Commu-nity College College Dr Greenfield

Aug 17-18 Wachusett Kennel Club Inc. Show Trade Center 150 Royal Plaza Drive Fitchburg Aug 21-25 Elm City Kennel Club Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield Aug 22-24 Newtown Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield Sept 12-15 Cape Cod Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 1220 Na-than S. Ellis Hwy Fal-mouth Sept 13-14 South Shore Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 1220 Na-than S. Ellis Hwy Fal-mouth Oct 20 Troy Kennel Club Inc. Show East-ern States Exposition Grounds 1305 Memori-al Ave West Springfield Nov 21 Holyoke Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield Nov 22 South Wind-sor Kennel Club Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield Nov 23 Windham County Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern

S t a t e s E x p o s i t i o n Grounds 1305 Memo-rial Ave West Spring-field Nov 24 Springfield Kennel Club Inc. Show Eastern States Expo-sition Grounds 1305 Memorial Ave West Springfield

MARYLAND April 20 Old Dominion Kennel Club of North-ern Virginia Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2200 York Road Timonium April 21 Baltimore County Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2200 York Road Timo-nium April 22 Catoctin Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 2200 York Road Timonium July 4 Catoctin Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 2210 Fair-grounds Road West Friendship July 6 Upper Marlboro Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2210 Fair-grounds Road West Friendship July 7 National Capital Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2210 Fair-grounds Road West Friendship Oct 13 National Capital Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2210 Fair-grounds Road West Friendship




Nov 8-9 Salisbury Maryland Kennel Club Inc. Show Civic Center Glen Ave at Civic Ave Salisbury Nov 23 Chesapeake Kennel Club of Mary-land Inc. Show Fair-grounds 2210 Fair-grounds Road West Friendship

MAINE May 16-8 Vacationland Dog Club Inc. Show Wassamki Springs-Scarborough 56 Saco St Scarborough May 17-19 York County Kennel Club of Maine Show Fairgrounds Rt 109 Scarborough June 20-21 Lewiston-Auburn Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 174 Bruce Hill Rd. Cumberland June 22-23 Penobscot Valley Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 174 Bruce Hill Rd. Cum-berland

MICHIGAN April 6-7 Saginaw Val-ley Kennel Club Show Expo Center 11600 S Beyer Rd. Birch Run April 27-28 Progressive Dog Club of Wayne County Inc. Show Expo Center 11600 S Beyer Rd. Birch Run May 18-19 Genesee County Kennel Club Inc. Show Shiawasse County Fairgrounds

2900 E Hibbard Rd. Corunna May 23 Pontiac Kennel Club Inc. Show Fair-grounds 2900 Lake St Kalamazoo May 24 Holland Michi-gan Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 2900 Lake St Kalamazoo May 25 Grand Rap-ids Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 2900 Lake St Kalamazoo May 26 Kalamazoo Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 2900 Lake St Kalamazoo May 27 Greater Mus-kegon Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 2900 Lake St Kalama-zoo June 6 -7 Midland Michigan Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 6905 Eastman Avenue Midland June 8-9 Mount Pleas-ant Michigan Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 6905 Eastman Ave Midland June 14-16 Grand Tra-verse Kennel Club Show Civic Center Tra-verse City June 22-23 Macomb Kennel Club Show Ar-mada Fair Grounds 74280 fair St. Armada Aug 4 Berrien Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds Marshall Aug 30-1 Marquette

Kennel Club Show Lakeview Arena 301 E Fair Ave Marquette

MINNESOTA May 25-26 Key City Kennel Club Inc Show Nicollet County Fair-grounds 400 Union St St Peter June 8-9 Lake Min-netonka Kennel Club Show Scott County Fairgrounds 7151 West 190th St Jordan July 11-14 Duluth Ken-nel Club Show Conv Center 350 Harbor Drive Duluth Aug 10-11 Kennel Club of Freeborn County Minnesota Inc. Show City Arena RR 1 Albert Lea Oct 6 Wright County Minnesota Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 800 Century Avenue SW Hutchinson Nov 9-10 Coulee Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Minnestoa Equestrian Center 24621 Gilmore Valley Rd. Winona

MISSOuRI May 4 Spirit of the Heartland Kennel Club Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit May 5 Jefferson Coun-ty Kennel Club of Missouri Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit May 31-1 Mississippi

Valley Kennel Club Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit June 2-3 Missouri Rhineland Kennel Club Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit June 15-16 Rolla Mis-souri Kennel Club Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit Aug 31-1 St. Louis Dog Breeders Associa-tion Inc. Show Purina Farms 200 Checkboard Dr Gray Summit Sept 141-5 Three Riv-ers Kennel Club of Missouri Show Purina Farms 300 Checker-board Loop Gray Sum-mit

MISSISSIPPI May 30-31 Northlake Kennel Club of Greater Covington Show Mis-sissippi Coast Coli-seum 2350 Beach Blvd Biloxi Sept 14-15 Mississippi State Kennel Club Inc. SHow Fairgrounds Greymont & High Sts Jackson

MONTANA June 18-20 Yellowstone Valley Kennel Club Show Metrapark-Mon-tana Fair Arena 308 6th Avenue N Billings June 21-22 Electric City Kennel Club Show




Montana Expo Park 400 3rd St. SW Great Falls June 23-25 Five Val-ley Kennel Club Show Western Montana Fair Grounds 1101 South Avenue W Missoula

NORTH CAROLINA

June 8 Asheville Ken-nel Club Inc. Show WNC Agricultural Center 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd Fletcher June 15-16 Western Carolina Dog Fanci-ers Association Show Haywood County Ag-ricultural And Activi-ties Center 758 Crab-tree Rd. Waynesville Aug 17-18 Carolina Kennel Club Inc. Show Coliseum Complex 1921 W Lee St Greens-boro Sept 1 Raleigh Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds 1025 Blue Ridge Rd. Raleigh Sept 2 Cary Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 1025 Blue Ridge Rd. Raleigh Sept 14-15 Moore County Kennel Club of North Carolina Show Polo Field NC High-way 5 Pinehurst Sept 28-29 Piedmont Kennel Club Inc. Show Showplace 13607 Cho-ate Circle Charlotte Nov 9-10 Furniture

City Kennel Club Inc. Show Coliseum 300 Deacon Blvd Winston-Salem Nov 15 Salisbury North Carolina Ken-nel Club Show Cabar-rus Arena and Events Center 4751Highway 49 North Concord

NORTH DAKOTA

May 31-2 Fargo-Moor-head Kennel Club Inc. Show Red River Valley Fairgrounds 1805 West Main Ave West Fargo Aug 2-4 Bismarck Ken-nel Club Show VFW All Seasons Arena 1200 N Washington St Bis-marck

NEBRASKA April 20-21 Grand Island Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 700 East Stolley Park Rd. Grand Island April 27-28 Seward County Kennel Club Show Seward County Fairgrounds 14th & Seward Seward Oct 3-4 Cornhusker Kennel Club of Lincoln Nebraska Inc. Show Lancaster Event Cen-ter 4100 N 84th Street Lincoln

NEW JERSEY May 5-6 Trenton Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Mercer County Park Old Trenton & South Post Roads W Wind-

sor Twp May 24 Staten Island Kennel Club Inc. Show East Freehold Park Ko-zloski Rd Freehold May 25 Monmouth County Kennel Club Inc. Show East Free-hold Park Kozloski Rd Freehold July 13 Twin Brooks Kennel Club Inc. Show William G Mennen Sports Arena 161 East Hanover Avenue Mor-ristown Sept 1 Sussex Hills Kennel Club Inc. Show William G Mennen Sports Arena 161 East Hanover Avenue Mor-ristown Sept 2 Schooley’s Mountain Kennel Club Show William G Men-nen Sports Arena 161 East Hanover Avenue Morristown Sept 6 Tuxedo Park Kennel Club Show North Branch Park 355 Milltown Rd Bridge-water

NEW MExICO May 11-12 Rio Grande Kennel Club Show Expo New Mexico 300 San Pedro NE Albu-querque May 13-14 Coronado Kennel Club of New Mexico Show Expo New Mexico 300 San Pedro NE Albuquer-que

NEvADA Aug 17-18 Reno Ken-nel Club Show Grand Sierra Resort 2500 East Second St. Reno

NEW YORK May 17-18 Ladies’ Kennel Association of America Show Plant-ing Fields Aboretum Planting Fields Road Oyster Bay May 19 Long Island Kennel Club Show Old Bethpage Village Restoration Round Swamp Rd. Bethpage May 30-2 Olean Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Chautauqua County Fair Assoc 1089 Central Avenue Dunkirk May 31-1 Conewango Valley Kennel Club Show Chautauqua County Fair Assoc 1089 Central Avenue Dunkirk June 1 Conewango Val-ley Kennel Club Show Chautauqua County Fair Assoc 1089 Central Avenue Dunkirk June 2 Olean Kennel Club Inc. Show Chau-tauqua County Fair Assoc 1089 Central Av-enue Dunkirk June 6 Saw Mill River Kennel Club Inc. Show Hudson Valley Sports-dome 240 Milton Turn-pike Milton June 9 Taconic Hills K e n n e l C l u b I n c . Show Franklin D Roo-




sevelt State Park 2957 Crompond Rd York-town Heights June 20 Wallkill Kennel Club Inc. Show Fair-grounds Libertyville Rd New Paltz June 21 Shawangunk Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Liber-tyville Rd New Paltz June 22-23 Genesee Valley Kennel Club Inc. Show Firemans Field 1971 Rush-Men-don Rd Rush June 22 Mid-Hudson Kennel Association Inc. Show Fairgrounds Libertyville Rd New Paltz June 23 Staten Island Kennel Club Inc. Show Midland Beach Sports Field Father Capodan-no Staten Island June 27 Kanadasaga Kennel Club Show General Clinton Park Rte 7 Bainbridge June 28 Del-Otse-Nan-go Kennel Club Show General Clinton Park Rte 7 Bainbridge July 19 Putnam Kennel Club Inc. Show Storm-ville Airport Route 216 Stormville Aug 7 Saratoga New York Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Ballston Spa Aug 9 Mohawk Val-ley Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Ballston

Spa Aug 10 Southern Ad-irondack Dog Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Ballston Spa Aug 16 Susque-Nango Kennel Club Inc. Show Firemans Field Day Grounds 9 Field Day Dr Apalachin Aug 17-18 Tioga Coun-ty Kennel Club Show Firemans Field Day Grounds 9 field Day Rd Apalachin Sept 28 Elmira Kennel Club Inc. Show Samp-son State Park Rte 96A Romulus Aug 31-1 Tonawanda Valley Kennel Club Inc. Show Bullard Park East Ave Rt 31 Albion

OHIO April 21 Central Ohio Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 717 East 17th Ave Columbus April 27-28 Fort St. Clair Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 722 S Franklin St Eaton May 4-5 Crawford County Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Whetstone St Bucyrus May 11-12 Ravenna Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds 229 E. Howe Rd Tallmadge May 16-19 Blennerhas-sett Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds JR Fair Building Marietta May 17-18 Greater

Clarksburg WV Ken-nel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds JR Fair Building Marietta May 24-25 Warren County Kennel Club of Ohio Show Fair-grounds Route 4 Ham-ilton May 26-27 Cincinnati Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Route 4 Hamilton June 1-2 Toledo Kennel Club Inc. Show Recre-ation Center 2901 Key Street Maumee June 15-16 Echo Hills Kennel Club of Ohio Show Fairgrounds Troy June 28 Sandusky Ken-nel Club Show Show-grounds 1050 Thayer Rd Lima June 29 Dayton Kennel Club Inc. Show Show-grounds 1050 Thayer Rd Lima June 30 Lima Kennel Club Show Show-grounds 1050 Thayer Rd Lima July 12-14 Grand River Kennel Club Inc. Show Community Park 5585 Chapel Road Madison July 13 Ashtabula Ken-nel Club Show Com-munity Park 5585 Cha-pel Road Madison July 26-27 Dan Emmett Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Marion July 28 Marion Ohio

Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Marion Aug 1 Fort Steuben Kennel Association Inc. Show Fairgrounds Rt 46 Canfield Aug 3 Beaver County Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Rt 46 Can-field Aug 4 Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds Rt 46 Canfield Aug 17-18 St. Clairs-ville Ohio Kennel Club Show Belmont County Park Roscoe Road St Clairsville Aug 23-24 Sugarbush Kennel Club Inc. Show Polo Field Ohio Route 87 & Chagrin River Road Chagrin Falls Aug 25 Western Re-serve Kennel Club Inc. Show Polo Field Ohio Route 87 & Chagrin River Road Chagrin Falls Sept 7-8 Clermont County Kennel Club Inc. Show Fairgrounds St Route 132 Owens-ville Oct 26-27 Delaware Ohio Kennel Club Show Fairgrounds Delaware Nov 14 Sandusky Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 717 East 17th Ave Columbus Nov 15 Dayton Kennel Club Inc. Show Fair-




grounds 717 East 17th Ave Columbus Nov 16 Lima Ken-nel Club Show Fair-grounds 717 East 17th Ave Columbus

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Birds In The Pan

Oranged Ruffed Grouse

Ingredients olive oil 4 ruffed grouse breasts w/o breast boneone small jar of orange marmalade..one half stick of butter

How to make it heat the olive oil in skillet just large enough to acconmodate the grouse breasts.. it should be crowded in the skillet and lightly oiled cook slowly and bring the breasts to browned finish. they need to be completely cooked. add the half stick of butter -let it melt and just start to bubble now smother the breasts with orange marmalade... increase the heat until the butter, oil and marmalade starts to bubble,thicken and congeal. keep everything in motion in the skillet don't let it rest until its all done then remove it from the heat

Pan-Seared Duck Breasts with Red

Wine-Raspberry Sauce 1 1/2 cups raspberries 1 large shallot, minced 1/2 cup dry red wine 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 4 Pekin duck breasts, skin scored in a crosshatch pattern Salt and freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup water 2 teaspoons honey 3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons 1 teaspoon chopped thyme

In a baking dish, mash 1/2 cup of the raspber-ries. Stir in the minced shallot, 1/4 cup of the red wine and the olive oil. Add the duck breasts and turn to coat. Turn the breasts skin side up, cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Scrape the marinade from the duck breasts into the remaining marinade and reserve. Pat the duck breasts dry, season them with salt and pepper and set them in a large skillet, skin side down. Cook over moderately high heat for 1 minute. Reduce the heat to low and cook until the skin is well browned, about 6 minutes. Turn the duck breasts and cook until medium-rare, about 3 minutes longer; transfer to a carving board and let rest for 5 minutes.

Discard the fat from the skillet. Add the remain-ing 1/4 cup of red wine and boil until reduced by half. Add the reserved marinade and the water and simmer over moderate heat until the sauce is slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Strain the sauce into a small saucepan and whisk in the honey and butter. Add the thyme and season with salt and pepper.

Thickly slice the duck breasts crosswise on the diagonal and transfer to plates. Spoon the red wine sauce around the duck, scatter the remaining 1 cup of raspberries on top and serve.




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