Habitat
Local Habitat Efforts
Pheasants Forever NE Indiana Chapter 182's members are truly passionate about creating, preserving and restoring habitat that benefits pheasants, quail and other upland wildlife. This unique model empowers local chapters with the responsibility to determine how 100 percent of their locally-raised conservation funds will be spent.
Whether it's through improving habitat, informing the public about land management or educating future generations of hunting enthusiasts, conservation is the underlying principle in all we do at the grassroots level.
Northeast Indiana Chapter 182 Habitat
Habitat Conservation and creation has been a primary focus of Chapter 182 since its inception. The vast majority of funds raised by the Chapter are spent on habitat projects for members, non-members, and other conservation related organizations. The Northeast Indiana chapter has been the number one Chapter in Indiana in habitat projects and has ranked very high among all Chapters in the National PF organization.
In 2022 the Chapter completed13 habitat projects, covering 362 acres, an exceptional year! This brings the total since 2000 to 567 projects covering about 6900 acres. For 2023,there have been 16 projects completed to date covering a total of 180 acres. Noble County accounts for a majority of the projects.
For 2024 there are currently 24 habitat projects scheduled, encompassing over 200 acres.
There have also been 24 seperate tree plantings encompassing about 38,000 trees. The Chapter also provides support for controlled, prescribed burns, and did 10 burns in 2021 covering 140 acres. This brings the Chapter's support of total controlled burns to 200 over approximately 2050 acres.
Chapter 182 had it's first pollinator habitat project covering 5 acres in 2017 and two additional in 2019. We expect this to be an increasingly popular type of project in future years.
Field Days are also an important education tool for all those interested in establishing or improving their habitat projects. A total of 10 Field Days have been conducted in recent years, with attendance in excess of 300 people.
To Schedule a project, or to find out more about our Habitat activities, call Dave Hurley, Habitat Chair, at 260-541-0400.
