February 11, 2008

Dear Members,

With the 2007 pheasant season behind us, we encourage you to take a minute to reflect on many of your great memories in the field, like a new pup’s first retrieve or your child’s first rooster harvested during the youth-only pheasant season. What a way to enjoy the
beautiful North Dakota outdoors!

The 26th annual Pheasant for the Future Banquet is scheduled for March 14, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Riverside. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with dinner, games of chance, and a live auction to follow. Again, we have seven raffle tables where every ticket holder is a
guaranteed winner! We will also have a silent auction, 50 item table, gun safe, and three additional gun tables. We encourage members to bring along return address labels to expedite the purchase of tickets. Our annual collector’s mugs will be sold for $10 each, which entitles you to drink free keg beer until the kegs are gone, or bar pour mixed drinks for $3/drink. As a reminder, if you do win a gun, we will fill out the paperwork the night of the banquet, but you will have to go to Scheel’s to pick up your gun. For legal reasons we cannot release the gun the night of the banquet.

Enclosed is a banquet ticket and club brochure with member application attached, one for you and another for someone you might know who would like to join our fine organization and attend a great banquet. The cost is still only $30 per member, but for just $15 your spouse or child can join you at the banquet. We would like to encourage our members to fill out the banquet ticket stub or membership application and mail it with your membership fee to: Pheasants for the Future, Inc., Box 594, Minot, ND, 58702.

Early registration helps substantially with the planning and costs of the banquet. Please get it to us by March 9th, so we can have your name on the pre-registered membership list and reduce your waiting in-line time. If you’d like to spend the night, call the Holiday Inn at
701-852-2504 or 1-800-468-9968 by March 1st to reserve your room at a special rate of $57 standard and only $67 poolside.

We continue to offer 50 newborn pheasant chicks to our members that are interested in raising and releasing birds. A deposit of $10 entitles you to a coupon for a free 50 lb. bag of chick starter feed. The pheasant chicks will be available for you to pick up at the
Punkin’ Patch Pheasant Ranch in mid May. Pheasant chicks will not be given to commercial enterprises.

We again will have youth camp memberships available. Also, any youth who shot a pheasant with a leg band on one of our Youth Hunting Areas must contact a board member to get entered into a drawing for a shotgun to be given away. Each youth will receive a gift bag and registration blanks for many great prizes to be given to youth only the night of the banquet.

The Board of Directors would like to extend a huge “Thank You” for your continued support. We remain the largest wildlife club in northwestern ND! Our winter feed program helps keep birds alive and close to cover during the harsh winter months. Our organization has been instrumental in the release of over 535,000 birds in the past 26 years. Our habitat program continues to grow. We want to help landowners develop suitable pheasant habitats that remain open to public hunting. We are expanding our youth programs, promoting good hunting opportunities, and ethics in our future hunters.

You will find several tables set up at the banquet with interesting information on our programs, so please stop by, visit with a board member and pick up some literature. You should be very proud of your club. The money raised at the banquet stays in the local area and helps local people do a great job making a positive impact on the benefit of wildlife. Please take some time and visit our website www.pftf.org. The website is packed with useful club information on upcoming events, sponsors, membership, club programs, and Pheasant for the Future news.

Please plan to join your friends and fellow members for a chance to take home over 80 guns, wildlife prints, a gun safe, accessories for your den or cabin, and hunting and fishing gear galore! Bring your spouse or a friend and enjoy one of the finest meals in town. We look forward to seeing you again at the Holiday Inn on Friday, March 14.

The Board of Directors