{"id":790,"date":"2018-05-08T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saquailforever.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:16:36","slug":"presidents-corner-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/presidents-corner-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"President’s Corner -May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
A quick update to let you know what is going on with Southern Arizona Quail Forever.<\/div>\n
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Overview:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
-The Gambels around my house have started pairing off and we should start seeing chicks before long.\u00a0 Overall desert habitat looks good but our last significant rain was in Feb.\u00a0 Late spring moisture is important to provide the bugs chicks need to thrive.\u00a0 Initial G&F call counts are not very positive.<\/div>\n
-Our Apr road cleanup effort to help keep Hog Canyon access open was well supported with 11 in attendance.\u00a0 All then attended the monthly fire station breakfast in Sonoita which helps support that volunteer organization.<\/div>\n
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Chapter Elections:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
-The elections are now complete, all member input provided supports the new volunteers.\u00a0 The board will turnover on 1 Jul 19<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 It is exciting to see new blood on the board including several younger members.<\/div>\n
-Expect to see a request for member input on our bylaws later this summer.<\/div>\n
-New board effective 1 Jul<\/span><\/span>:<\/div>\n
President – Zack May<\/div>\n
VP – Dave Struyk<\/div>\n
Secretary – Brian Tackett<\/div>\n
Treasurer – Steve Geerligs<\/div>\n
Banquet Chair – Steve Geerligs<\/div>\n
Youth Co-Chair – Nick \u00a0Besenick<\/div>\n
Youth Co-Chair – Tony Valentino<\/div>\n
Habitat – Jim Littlejohn<\/div>\n
Website\/Social Media – Dave Brown<\/div>\n
At Large – Steve Hopkins<\/div>\n
At Large – Ron Walp<\/div>\n
At Large – Howard Swenson<\/div>\n
At Large\u00a0– Linda Pfister<\/div>\n
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Habitat:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
-The board has voted to hire Borderland Restorations<\/a> to build loose rock structures in a borderland area about 30 miles SE of Sonoita.\u00a0 Once we get a contract and permits are in place we will write a check to start work.\u00a0 This organization has extensive experience working with forest service and will use low cost labor including prisoners and high school students.\u00a0 They also<\/p>\n
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Firescape project on the right Mexico on the left<\/p><\/div>\n

offer us the opportunity to provide \u201csweat equity\u201d for those members that want to provide some hands on help.\u00a0 Forest service is continuing to thin and cleanup that area for fire abatement using funds we provided to them in the past.\u00a0 Dave Brown and I toured that area and their initial work looks good.\u00a0 G&F has also indicated they may be able to provide some fairly significant funds to help with these projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

-A Tucson based Boy Scout Troop is also interested in helping us with a habitat project, we hope to give them two options one close to Tucson and another that may require them to camp.<\/div>\n
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Rock Dam in action in Patagonia AZ<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Chapter Meetings:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
-Our tentative plan is to do a monthly chapter meeting Nov through Mar for the 18\/19 hunting season and keep them on the third Thursday of he month.<\/div>\n
-We are considering doing the Nov meeting in Vail and Mar meeting in Green Valley with the three middle meeting during the heavy snowbird season in Sonoita.<\/div>\n
-Nick Besenick and Jim Littlejohn have volunteered to assess other venues that are offer improved presentation capability over Steakout.<\/div>\n
–Please send me your thoughts on our meetings to help us provide what members want.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
The Arizona chapter of BHA has scheduled a pint night in Tucson 17 May 6 PM<\/span><\/span> at Sentinel Peak brewery 4746 Grant Ave.\u00a0 BHA is doing good work to protect public land, access to public land and our right to hunt and fish.\u00a0 This is an opportunity to stop in and talk to some of their members and see if you would have an interest in helping them out. \u00a0Questions on BHA can be addressed to\u00a0justinnelson@outlook.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Future dates:<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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  • 1 Jul<\/span><\/span> New Board in Place<\/li>\n
  • Sep Scaled Quail and Box Turtle Count Bonita\u00a0 TBD<\/li>\n
  • 19 Oct<\/span><\/span> Desert Quail Opens<\/li>\n
  • Fall Road Cleanup TBD<\/li>\n
  • 7 Dec<\/span><\/span> Mearns Quail Opens<\/li>\n
  • 8 Dec<\/span><\/span> Quail Festival w G&F Sonoita<\/li>\n
  • 2 Feb 19<\/span><\/span> 7th Annual Banquet Sonoita<\/li>\n
  • Winter Road Cleanup TBD<\/li>\n
  • 17 Feb 19<\/span><\/span> Quail Closes<\/li>\n
  • 22-24 Feb<\/span><\/span> Quail Classic Schaumburg IL<\/li>\n
  • Mar 19<\/span><\/span> Family Day\/Youth Hunt TBD<\/li>\n
  • Mar 19<\/span><\/span> G&F Expo TBD<\/li>\n
  • AZG&F Expo Mar TBD<\/li>\n
  • Spring Road Cleanup TBD<\/li>\n
  • 18\/19 Season Meetings TBD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Quail Forever values your privacy, all member emails are bcc.<\/div>\n
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    A quick update to let you know what is going on with Southern Arizona Quail Forever. Overview: -The Gambels around my house have started pairing off and we should start seeing chicks before long.\u00a0 Overall desert habitat looks good but our last significant rain was in Feb.\u00a0 Late spring moisture is important to provide the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,25,33,39,52],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronado-national-forest","tag-gambels-quail","tag-mearns-quail","tag-quail-forever","tag-southern-arizona-quail-forever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saquailforever.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}