Ohio Build a Wildlife Area

The Build a Wildlife Area program puts 100 percent of the funds raised directly toward land acquisitions utilizing state, federal and other grants.

The Build a Wildlife Area program puts 100 percent of the funds raised directly toward land acquisitions utilizing state, federal and other grants.

Through the Ohio Build a Wildlife Area campaign, Pheasants Forever and its partners will raise funds to be used for the acquisition and management of wildlife areas in Ohio. All funds raised through the campaign will be tripled by matching grants.

"Initiating this Build a Wildlife Area campaign in Ohio – a state where 97 percent of land is held in private ownership – is especially important right now," said Doug Bensman, Pheasants Forever Regional Wildlife Biologist in the state, "Not only in helping out current hunters, but in terms of giving future hunters opportunities and retaining them as well."

The campaign is a wide-reaching effort to engage individual donors, corporations, non-profit and government organizations to create permanent public wildlife areas. What really makes the campaign unique is that through matching grants Pheasants Forever stretches one dollar into three, $100,000 becomes $300,000. Those kinds of dollars can purchase land. The Build a Wildlife Area campaign gives you the most conservation bang for your conservation buck. Once lands are acquired, they are turned over to another entity such as the state, park district, or property can become part of the Forever Land Trust. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Ohio Outdoor News have already pledged their support of the Ohio Build a Wildlife Area campaign.

To learn more, contact Jim Inglis toll free at 866-914-PFQF (7373) or via email at jinglis@pheasantsforever.org; or visit the Ohio Pheasants Forever website at www.OhioPF.com.

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