May 5, 2008

 

Dear Members,

            WOW!! What a banquet!  The Board of Directors would like to extend a  “Thank You” to all of our members and sponsors for contributing to the huge success of our annual membership banquet. 

            Enclosed in this mailing is a 2008 membership card and window decal.  The membership card grants permission for members to utilize our Youth Hunting areas.  We have three youth only areas now; Doug and Bev Hauge in Minot, Doug and Merle Stevick in Berthold and Dan Jaeger south of Balfour.  We appreciate your efforts to involve youth in responsible hunting – and remember if one of you young hunters bags a rooster with our leg band, they are entered into a drawing for a free shotgun at next years banquet!

            You are invited to attend our annual membership meeting on Thursday, May 29^th, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Grand International.  We’ll take care of some unfinished business from previous meetings and also elect officers for the coming year.  If you are interested in becoming more involved in your club, we have openings for associate board members.  Stop in, see what we are all about, and let us know you’d like to get involved.

            A few activities going on this summer are; the Rooster Run, Patrick Flanegan exhibition shooting, Outdoor Youth Festival, and Lake Audabon fishing tourney. We are trying to introduce Pheasant for the Future ND license plates.  There is more information on these events and programs on our website www.pftf.org. 

As part of our pheasant restoration program, we will be providing over 16,000 pheasant chicks to be raised by individual members and area wildlife clubs. As exciting as it is to provide members with pheasant chicks to raise and release, we all know that habitat is the key to pheasant survival and propagation.  We dedicate a portion of our annual budget for habitat development and want to encourage interested individuals to improve and develop habitat.  If we help fund a habitat area, we require that the area remain open to public hunting, and that we be allowed to post Pheasants for the Future habitat sings.  If you have some ideas, submit a written request to the board of directors for cost-sharing consideration.

We are going to start sending club information out through the internet.  We feel it will be more cost effective and also keep our members current with events throughout the year.  I want to encourage all members to submit their email address on our website, so we may keep our records current. 

We have over 900 members and are now the largest sportsman club in ND.  We know that none of our projects would be possible without each and every member, sponsor, and volunteer.  Please log on our website www.pftf.org to find the list of upcoming events and sponsor list.  Once again, we say Thank You for your 26 years of continued support of this incredible club.  Have a great summer!

 

 

                                                                        The Board of Directors