On April 25th we completed a habitat day in which 22 local volunteers helped clear invasive cedar trees on the Rosenau-Lambrecht WMA between Essig and New Ulm.  Volunteers included Brown County PF board members, Trap team members from New Ulm and Sleepy Eye, Sleepy Eye FFA members and teachers, and Sioux Valley Gun Club members.  We look forward to continuing to help manage the local WMA’s by taking out old, barbed wire fencing, removing invasive trees, cleaning garbage, and improving signage and parking areas.  

It’s now time to focus on getting our food plots planted.  This year Mathiowetz Construction helped us with a generous donation meant to help with purchase of seed and planting costs.  This seed is available to our members; just ask a board member for more information!  Quality habitat including winter cover, nesting cover, and food/water availability is proving to be the most valuable asset to grow the pheasant population.  If you’ve driven around the county at all this spring you’ve surely seen numerous pheasants on the field edges.  A couple of mild winters in a row and ample habitat has really helped the numbers.  If we get a good nesting season, we should be in for a nice fall of hunting.