Minnesota’s Pope County pheasant group keeps conservation local for over 40 years
Gary Weber has trained six hunting dogs since 1982, the year he helped form Pope County Pheasant Restoration, a conservation/hunting nonprofit organization that predates the arrival of Pheasants Forever.
He said he remembers all of them – five Chesapeake Bay retrievers and his current Labrador – fondly.
“Time flies, doesn’t it?” said Weber, the organization’s current chairman. “We had a lot of fun together.”
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