What is the Habitat Specialist Program?
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever’s Habitat Specialist Program is designed to work cooperatively with local, state, federal agency partners and private landowners to enhance habitat on public and private lands across the country. We currently have habitat specialists working in twelve (12) different states across the country providing on-the-ground implementation expertise to complete a diverse array of practices including prescribed fire, upland restoration, woodland thinning, riparian and wetland restoration, and invasive vegetation management. The Habitat Specialist program was created as a natural extension of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, as an additional means of implementing the habitat work planned by our partners and their Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever colleagues.
The Habitat Specialist program objective to restore and enhance wildlife habitat increases the number of positively impacted acres, increases accessibility of habitat management practices to private landowner where there has historically been a lack of contractors, and increases the capacity of our partners where additional staffing is needed.
The Habitat Specialist program is versatile enough to function well as individuals, paired specialists working together, or as four to five (4-5) person Habitat Strike Teams. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever has established average costs for individual positions and teams The flexibility of the Habitat Specialist Program adds strength and utility to Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever and gives us additional ways to work with all our partners in conservation across the country. This program is in constant development as new partner opportunities that align with the Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever mission become available. Although the Habitat Specialist Program has been around since the early 2000’s it represents a continued tradition of creativity when it comes to achieving our vision and mission of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever across the U.S.