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Mark Herwig
Before coming to Pheasants Forever, Herwig was a chapter president and board member of a Minnesota-based state conservation group, a full time staffer for another national conservation group on the Upper Mississippi River, conservation staff member for a U.S. Congressman and editor/writer for many newspapers and magazines. In his 12 years as editor of Pheasants Forever Journal (and now Quail Forever Journal), he has completed stories on and hunted with chapter members in 30 different states. Herwig first joined PF in 1987 in Colorado. He owns two wicked-good springers, which he trains himself.
Harvest time–September means pumpkins and doves
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Yet, while the garden harvest wanes, the game harvest is just waxing, beginning with a dove hunt in North Dakota starting Friday.
My Office – a Shrine to a Life of Conservation & Hunting
Friday, August 27th, 2010
What does the office of a nomadic hunter-gatherer journalist look like after 12 years of wandering the country hunting, hiking and exploring?
Happy 5th Anniversary Quail Forever–Good progress is being made
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
I have felt your love and enthusiasm for this bird, its habitat and for our quail hunting tradition, steeped as it is in American culture, history and our hearts.
Deer Season is on the Horizon – and Where You Find Deer, You’ll Find Pheasants Too
Monday, August 16th, 2010
PF members…hunt whitetail second only to pheasants. It’s no accident pheasants and deer are found together
Pheasant Hunting, Guns and Dogs Galore — The Fall Pheasants Forever Journal is on the Way!
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
The time of year we have all waited for is just around the corner – pheasant hunting season — and we have its adventurous spirit ready for you in the Fall issue of PF Journal.
Air Guitar – Air Shooting? — Why not!
Friday, August 6th, 2010
You’ve all heard of air guitar, well air shooting is as much fun, practical and effective.
The Mobile Hunting Shack, a Landowner Buddy and CRP
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I love having the trailer because it allows me to hunt an isolated area of North Dakota that has little public lodging – which makes it an even better area to hunt.
A Change at Ole Olson’s Farm
Friday, July 30th, 2010
I had never heard of such a thing, but I never forgot it either. Thus was born my consciousness of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a effort that today, nearly 25 years later, has become synonymous with upland conservation, great pheasant hunting and the rise of Pheasants Forever – for our destiny’s have been, and remain, intimately intertwined.
Fly Fishing Idaho’s South Fork – A wing shooter gives it a try
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
So, at day’s end, I found myself sitting cross-legged on the boat’s bow sans fly rod, meditating over the magnificent scenery drifting by, taking notes for a story in our youth magazine Upland Tales and being thankful I lived to experience such a stupendous day.
Our Little Front Yard Prairie
Monday, July 26th, 2010
PF has been responsible for improving, planting and maintaining millions of acres of upland and other types of wildlife habitat all over this great land, coast to coast, north and south. But we always keep our eye on what’s local … our own front yards.
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