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…
Local Conservation Organizations Have a Field Day with Dixie Elementary School
Story by Brad Trumbo, published in the Waitsburg Times, Palouse Outdoors Column, December 7th, 2023. In late October, the Walla Walla County Conservation District (WWCD), Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (BMPF), and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) hosted Dixie Elementary for a…
“Sharing the Land” and Conservation Values
Published July 6th, 2023 in The Waitsburg Times Aldo Leopold is known as the visionary behind modern wildlife and habitat management. He understood the connection between ecosystem integrity and wildlife abundance and diversity. Perhaps more important, Leopold understood where and how humans fit into…
2022 National Chapter of the Year
See the full list of 2022 National Chapter Award recipients here! Read the Walla Walla Union Bulletin Story here! PF EDUCATION AND OUTREACH AWARD – BLUE MOUNTAIN CHAPTER First chartered in 1988, the Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever Chapter #0258 of eastern Washington is one…
Women on the Wing Hosts Pre-season Upland Hunt
Originally published in The Waitsburg Times, 6 October 2022 (hunter names are fictional) Smoke hung like a heavy fog in the Palouse River canyon, making for a simultaneously mesmerizing yet apocalyptic scene. The sun itself appeared ablaze, blood-orange behind the smoke as it climbed…
Women on the Wing – Learn to Hunt and Shoot
Press Release published in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin 29 May 2022 The threat of rain didn’t stop twenty-three enthusiastic women from arriving at the Walla Walla Gun Club on April 30th, 2022, for a Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (BMPF) Women on the Wing…
2022 Annual Banquet Summary
Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (BMPF) held its 31st annual fundraiser banquet February 26th, 2022 at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds Pavilion. Per usual, the community offered overwhelming support for the non-profit habitat organization. Tickets were sold at $90 for a single Pheasants Forever membership with options…
Women on the Wing Lands in Walla Walla
2022 Women on the Wing Steering Committee While hunting is still largely viewed as a man’s activity, the number of women hunters increased 25 percent between 2011-2016 according to US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the numbers continue to climb. Embracing women in the…