Youth Pheasant Hunt Provides a Memorable Experience
Originally Published in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, November 8th, 2025. October brings a welcome autumnal change and the opening of the upland bird seasons. The awaited time has finally arrived to let the dogs run and put some miles under our feet amid…
Grouse Wings & Tails Needed for Population Monitoring
WDFW would like to remind us grouse hunters of the wing and tail collection barrels placed at various areas in the Blue Mountains. Forest grouse wings and tails contributed by upland hunters are analyzed each winter by WDFW biologists to estimate harvest, age, and…
Holiday trees will go to build bird habitats
Published in The Waitsburg Times, January 9th, 2025 – Photos by Kate Hockersmith Thanks to the Waitsburg Agriculture Education students, BMPF Treasurer, Eric Hockersmith, and BMPF Habitat Committee Chair, Brad Triebwasser for gathering Waitsburg’s Christmas trees on January 6th. Eric and Brad covered pallet structures…
Women on the Wing Clean Up with “Barbed Wire and Beer”
Extreme forecasted heat failed to stop nearly a dozen passionate women who gathered to clean debris from a public access property on the outskirts of Walla Walla in July. The event, dubbed “Barbed Wire and Beer,” encompassed just that – about 1,400 pounds of…
Pheasants Forever Continues Youth Shooting Sports Tradition
Story by Brad Trumbo, published in The Waitsburg Times, June 6th, 2024 A beautiful early summer morning greeted nearly a dozen youth interested in the outdoors and shooting sports as they arrived at the Walla Walla Gun Club (Gun Club). The day’s event, sponsored…
Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever’s Rooster Rally unites women in the outdoors
Story by Brad Trumbo, published in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, December 9th, 2023 Smoke billowed from the stovepipe jutting through the tin roof of the warming shack, creating a white cloud that screened the warm sunrays streaming through the crisp autumn air. A…