Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever Recognizes 2025’s Outstanding Volunteers
Each year, Blue Mountain Pheasants Forever (BMPF) recognizes a few of our outstanding volunteers at the annual banquet. Awards presented include the Polaris Habitat Stewardship award, Volunteer of the Year, and, new for 2026, a Youth Volunteer of the Year award. The Polaris Habitat…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Family Hunt Tradition
Heading to the field to roust up some roosters Smoke curled up from the chimney that protrudes through the tin roof sheltering a massive brick firepit. A cast-iron grate supported an old blue and white porcelain percolator, warmed by the amber glow of embers…