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KANSAS CITY, MO – FEMA, state emergency management, and representatives from the Papio–Missouri River Natural Resources District (Papio NRD) will hold a media availability Thursday, September 1 to discuss the recent selection of a resilience project that has been identified as part of FEMA’s $ 1.1 billion climate and disaster resilience investment.
The project for the Papio-Missouri River NRD is the first Nebraska project to be selected for further review under FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) National Competition. The Papio WP-4 Project is a flood risk reduction and water storage structure – a dam – in the South Papillion Creek Basin Watershed near the city of Gretna. The structure is designed to control runoff from a 500-year rainfall event with the belief that there will be future urban development in the watershed. The proposed project is intended to provide benefits, which include protection of 40+ properties, nine structures, and environmental benefits to 48 acres. Those benefits include a water quality improvement, new riparian habitat, and recreational space for local and Omaha metro populations. This project is a long-term solution with an estimated use period of 50 years.
WHAT: Media Availability for official remarks, Q&A.
WHO: Speakers include:
WHEN: 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. CT, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022.
Note: Official remarks will begin at 8:00 a.m., followed by a Q&A session with FEMA, NEMA and Papio NRD.
WHERE: Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District, 8901 S. 154th St. Omaha, NE, 68138
CONTACT: RSVP to FEMA Region 7 News Desk at 816-283-7095 or fema-r7newsdesk@fema.dhs.gov by August 31.
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Ammunition manufacturer celebrates its centennial anniversary, including four decades of conservation support for upland habitat
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are proud to announce the national sponsorship renewal of Federal Ammunition, including its title as the official ammunition sponsor of The Habitat Organization. The renewal continues a partnership that has been ongoing since the mid-1980s between the world’s leading ammunition manufacturer and North America’s foremost upland habitat conservation group.
“Federal Ammunition produces upland shotshells by hunters for hunters, and its employees recognize the connection between their customer base, healthy bird populations, and publicly accessible lands” said Chris Kalis, director of corporate partnerships for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever. “Their brand speaks to the upland conservation work our chapters, volunteers, and staff are accomplishing throughout the year and we couldn’t be prouder to earn their steadfast support.”
As part of its sponsorship, Federal Ammunition has an on-box royalty program that donates a portion of sales proceeds from the popular Prairie Storm ammunition line, as well as Upland High Velocity shotshells, to habitat conservation projects nationwide. The company also supports Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever land acquisition projects in Minnesota which can now be viewed on the organization’s new Public Land Acquisitions Map web application.
In addition to the conservation work achieved within the partnership spanning nearly four decades, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever also acknowledge Federal Ammunition’s milestone centennial anniversary in 2022. “We’re honored to be part of Federal’s past, present, and future and congratulate their successes over 100 years” added Kalis. “This story includes more than 55 million rounds of conservation support for pheasants, quail, public lands, and our dedicated members.” Members can read more about Federal’s celebrated history on page 114 of the 2022 Upland Bird Hunting Super Issue.
“Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever continue to deliver results for upland birds along with other species. Their drive for creating more habitat has shown to produce more birds for their members and our customers to enjoy days afield. Federal is proud to continue our support to the organizations creating more experiences for our customers, and we plan to continue making the best quality ammunition for them here in America,” said Jason Nash, Vice President of Marketing for Federal.
As the official ammunition sponsor of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, Federal Ammunition sponsors the organization’s On the Wing eNewsletter and the 2022 Rooster Road Trip taking place this November in the state of Montana. Additionally, the company is the presenting sponsor for the upcoming 2023 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Minneapolis on February 17, 18, & 19.
About Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever make up the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. This community of more than 400,000 members, supporters and partners is dedicated to the protection of our uplands through habitat improvement, public access, education and advocacy. A network of 754 local chapters spread across North America determine how 100 percent of their locally raised funds are spent — the only national conservation organization that operates through this grassroots structure. Since its creation in 1982, the organization has dedicated more than $ 1 billion to 567,500 habitat projects benefiting 22 million acres.
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Global Angling Achievements Enabled by Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro
Fishing success boils down to being in the right place at the right time and having the proper equipment in hand, an adage that is particularly true for anglers pursuing record-size game fish. In 2021, Shimano brands took top honors in the International Game Fish Association’s annual compilation of world record tackle, attesting to the powerful advantages anglers leverage with Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro products.
Governing the rules of angling and recognizing extraordinary achievements in recreational fishing since 1939, the IGFA maintains world record categories for both freshwater and saltwater game fish in All-Tackle, Line Class, Tippet Class, Junior, Smallfry and Live Release categories. The IGFA added an incredible 422 new records to its 2021 IGFA World Record Game Fishes book, documenting angling achievements across 28 countries. Notably, record-setting anglers relied on products from Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro for 262 new world records – over 60% of the total records established in 2021.
Shimano products enable success and set new standards for performance and reliability across the globe. Leveraging more than 100 years of purposeful design and innovation, Shimano reel technologies continue to elevate the on-the-water experience. Shimano engineering helped anglers set 102 new IGFA records in the Saltwater Reel category, including Lily Simms’ gargantuan 322.50 kg (711 lb) black marlin captured with help from a Shimano Tiagra TI130A – a fish that bested the existing record by more than 300 pounds. No stranger to world record accomplishments, Simms also caught a 15.10 kg (33 lb 5 oz) black marlin on a Shimano Talica in 2020, a fish that still stands as the Women’s 2-pound-test record. Shimano performance also enabled anglers to set 60 new IGFA world records in the Freshwater Reel category. Notably, Texas angler Wyatt Frankens set the new All-Tackle world record for a smallmouth-largemouth bass hybrid at 3.43 kg (7 lb 9 oz) with help from a Shimano SLX DC baitcasting reel.
Shimano rods deliver a masterful blend of technology and intelligent design to a wide range of fishing styles. Anglers used Shimano conventional rods to set 42 new records in the Saltwater Rod category and G. Loomis fly rods to establish 8 Tippet Class records in the Saltwater Fly Rod category. Shimano and G. Loomis freshwater rods combined to help anglers set 20 additional world records, making Shimano-family conventional and fly rods responsible for an astonishing 70 new IGFA records in 2021 alone.
PowerPro braided lines influence how elite anglers approach specialized fisheries and how manufacturers design the latest rods, reels and lures. PowerPro enables anglers to push tackle and technique to the extremes, leveraging exclusive technologies to set 30 new world records across the Saltwater and Freshwater Line categories.
Shimano looks forward to another record-setting 2022, filled with even more excitement and product innovations that extend Shimano’s legacy of excellence. Shimano, G. Loomis and PowerPro stand ready to transform fishing experiences and propel record-seeking anglers to believe that the impossible is well within reach.
About Shimano
Leading the fishing industry in innovation and quality for 100 years, Shimano’s manufacturing capabilities allow for anglers worldwide to enjoy their time on the water to the fullest. We designed the entire lineup of Shimano products to elevate angler experiences with features that continuously evolve to push the boundaries of modern fishing tackle while raising the bar for the whole fishing industry.
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Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors, Inc. Board Chairman Ryan Bronson announced the addition of a new member to the Board of Directors. Joining the board is Pete Alfano of a founding partner of Whitetail Properties. Pete will join members Ryan Bronson, Eric Dinger, Brett Walton, Scott Vance, and Julie McQueen.
“Pass It On has been experiencing tremendous growth and delivering high quality outdoor adventures every year and as our program grows, we have been building out a board of directors with diverse expertise and skill sets,” said Ryan Bronson, PIO Board Chair. “Pete Alfano and Whitetail Properties have been significant contributors to Pass It On both financially and providing access to quality properties and we are pleased to add him to our governing board of directors.”Pete Alfano said, “I am happy to announce my acceptance to the board of directors with Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors! Getting youth in the outdoors is a huge passion of mine and I am looking forward to bringing my network of Whitetail Properties family and friends to the program. I was fortunate enough to have a mentor when I was a teenager and that pivotal opportunity led to my passion in the outdoors and ultimately created my career in the outdoors. So many kids do not have the opportunity to experience the outdoors and I am excited to be part of a mission that can offer kids more opportunity in the outdoors.”
Pete Alfano: Pete Alfano is a founding partner of Whitetail Properties. Pete remains an agent at Whitetail Properties, continuing to serve as a Land Specialist for buyers and sellers seeking expertise in rural property markets and values. Whitetail Properties also relies on Pete as an advisor to the company’s leadership team on rural-market trends and buyer tendencies. Many in the hunting community and industry recognize Pete by his frequent appearances on Whitetail Properties TV. The company’s television show, which airs on The Sportsmen Channel, helps promote property listings and showcases extraordinary hunts because of science-based wildlife management and habitat enhancements of rural properties.
Over the years, Pete’s has also owned a couple of successful hunting lodges: one in Kentucky and another in southern Illinois. He’s owned rural properties in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Kansas. And he’s been published in numerous outdoor publications including North American Whitetail, Wired to Hunt and Minnesota Outdoor News.
While Pete’s unorthodox experience in business ownership — having assumed these responsibilities at such a young age — have proven invaluable to his success at Whitetail Properties, his success can also be attributed to simply pursuing the things that he was personally passionate about. Pete, a second-generation Italian American whose father migrated to the U.S. from Sicily, was born in Chicago, and moved to Pittsfield, Illinois when he was 15. He currently lives with his wife Christie in Oak Grove, Minnesota, northwest of the Twin Cities.
Since Whitetail Properties was founded in 2007, it has grown into a nationally recognized brand and considered North America’s top choice when it comes to buying and selling recreational hunting, ranch, farm, and timber land. Today, Whitetail Properties has over 300 Land Specialists covering 38 states and counting. To date, the company’s team has sold over 1.3 million acres thanks to Whitetail Properties national network of land buyers of hunting, ranch, and farmland. Whitetail Properties averages over 10 properties sold every day companywide.
The Whitetail Properties corporate office is in the heart of Pike County, Illinois – known around the world for giant whitetails and fertile farm ground. The corporate office provides a level of support to their national team of Land Specialists with marketing, accounting, public relations, information technology, video production and real estate administration.
About Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors, Inc.
Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors’ mission is to provide outdoor experiences and ongoing opportunities to youth and volunteer mentors to develop future generations of hunters and anglers, thereby positively impacting the conservation of natural resources and the lives of youth. Our program focus is to bridge the gap between target shooting and outdoor recreation but will take any youth out hunting and fishing. We take great pride in passing it onto the next generation! For more information about Pass It On – Outdoor Mentors, please visit www.outdoormentors.org.
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Remington Ammunition has announced a new line extension to the popular Gun Club Target Load series of shotshells for 2022. Sporting Clay enthusiasts can now go to the range with Gun Club 12 gauge 1oz, #7.5 shot loads, with a velocity of 1250 FPS. This new load is demanded by and optimized for sporting clay shooters, while being a great choice for other clay shooting disciplines as well.
This announcement follows recent expansions to the Gun Club line from earlier this year including low recoil options and the popular Gun Club Cure, a product benefiting children’s hospitals nationwide. All Remington Ammunition products are developed with shooters in mind and continue to deliver the trusted performance the brand is known for.
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“Remington shooters asked, and we delivered with this new expansion to the Gun Club lineup,” said Ronnie Evans, Remington Ammunition’s Shotshell Product Line Manager. “The Gun Club Target Load series is one of our most popular lines and we are excited to bring these to market just in time to test out at the course this summer.”
More information about these new products and all Remington Ammunition can be found at www.remington.com, on Remington’s e-newsletter and on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.
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We’ve all read the headlines claiming that opening day is your ticket to filling that buck tag. This can definitely be true, especially if you’re hunting a state with an early archery opener. Bucks are visible during daylight hours and are likely still exhibiting their day-in-day-out summer feeding patterns. But the harsh reality is that the overwhelming majority of us will go home on opening day with a tag still in our pocket. If there was one…
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Houston Safari Club Foundation (HSCF) and “Hunting Matters” welcomes Chris Williams of Williams Knife Company. Inspired by his grandfather, Chris Williams is a second-generation knife maker. He watched his grandfather craft knives from discarded bandsaw blades in his workshop. This prompted Chris to create his own style of knives that were as beautiful as they […]
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NOTE: I began this post in April, part way through my last quarter as a teacher at Neah Bay High School. I didn’t finish it for some reason. Now I want to get it out.
In the grass that has overgrown
causes and effects,
someone must be stretched out
blade of grass in his mouth
gazing at the clouds
— Wisława Szymborska
It’s been a tough year for me out here away from birdland. I’ve missed so much and have done a terrible job dealing with that frustration. I’ve turned self-pity from a Georges Seurat triptych to El Capitan. Nothing gets through, and you know it won’t, so you stop trying.
Or you should.
But I haven’t, even though I’ve told myself a thousand times I should. Leonard Cohen puts it this way:
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
Until this afternoon I’ve all but ignored that light (despite focusing, obsessing on the cracks). Right now I’m sitting at my desk in my classroom overcome with overdetermined light and a few tears shed by an epiphany coming from a conversation with a student about the last stanza of Wisława Szymborska’s 1993 poem, “The End and the Beginning.” “…someone must be stretched out / blade of grass in his mouth / gazing at the clouds.” The poem is about recovering from the destruction of war. I hadn’t read the final image correctly, and I hadn’t even chosen the poem but rather used it as one of the readings in a canned textbook unit (something I’d never done until now, which — if you’re a teacher — will tell you something about my state of mind). And so here comes the student, trying to finish writing answers to the questions in the textbook, and we worked through it together, and we both saw the light at the same time. Dead center in the stanza is the word “must,” which is a word we must become desensitized to in order to endure parents’ and teachers’ and authority figures’ orders, or to make haphazard guesses as to whom is knocking on the door (“It must be the postman…”). But everything depends on that word here because, without it, the thing that signifies recovery can not happen. Someone must be lying there on the grass without a care in the world.
When I was about 10 years old, still disgusted by the two-year-old fact that the Beatles had broken up, I edged up the alphabet to the next good thing to listen to: Beethoven. My favorite composition of his is the adagio to his string quartet Opus 132, the “Heiliger Dankgesang,” which he wrote after recovering from a near-death experience. If you haven’t heard it, it’s worth a listen because I think anyone can hear the joy of a kind of breakthrough, and we can all use that kind of experience from time to time. It was a rough year, two years, for everyone, and we’re still not out of it. Remember that, and remember to remember that you yourself are not exempt from the need for TLC. There were many times this past year when I felt I’d reached the end, and things like this string quartet, or like the experience with the student (I wish I felt I had the space here to do justice to that moment, and to the student himself) cracks open the chance for a beginning. We all must have those moments. They’re everywhere, but sometimes hard to see.
So I’ve missed birdland, as I knew I would but didn’t know how much it would matter, and now see the chance to return to it, wherever or whenever that may be. All the responses to my previous post (“Granted“) were so kind and thoughtful and sincere and helpful. They’re the light that’s got through the crack, and I’m so grateful for it. I’m also just now realizing that after Beethoven, the next musical light that came on for me was just up the alphabet a bit: Bird (Charlie Parker). Which makes me think of Steven Feld’s amazing book on the Kaluli Indians of Papua New Guinea (Sound and Sentiment), whose existence is wholly wrapped up in the sounds of birds in the rain forest they live in (they rarely actually see the birds because the forest is so dense), so much so that when they describe those sounds they weep. Tears of joy. At the end of his time living with the Kaluli, Feld played them a recording of Charlie Parker, telling them he was called Bird. When they heard the recording, they wept. Tears of joy. I can hear the chukar calling.