Benton Franklin Pheasants Forever

05/13/2026

If you’re looking for rattlesnake avoidance training for your dog this summer, here’s your chance!

Rattle Snake Avoidance Clinic
Friday, June 12 in Medical Lake, WA

The folks from Natural Solutions Training will be bringing a bunch of rattle snakes and training your dog to avoid them. The snakes are humanely muzzled so they can’t bite- but the dogs can see them move and smell real live rattle snakes. The dogs will also be taught to avoid rattlers by sound.

$95/dog, which I assure you is a small fraction of a vet bill for a snake bite.

To sign up, E-mail Ellen at [email protected]. You will be given a time slot, so we aim to get folks in and out within an hour. If you have a preference on time that day, please mention it in your E-mail and include a cell number. Cash or check on the day.

Fun fact- photo is of a Whitman county resident taken during hunting season.

05/13/2026

05/10/2026

Whether your mom joins you in the field or says “don’t bring those gross dead birds in the house,” happy Mother’s Day to all the upland mom’s out there!

05/07/2026

Great volunteering opportunity!

WDFW needs your help to get some plants in the ground in Eastern Washington! We’re partnering with Pheasants Forever - Inland Empire Chapter on an upcoming riparian improvement project at the Swanson Lakes Wildlife Area southeast of Davenport. We need some volunteers to help plant 675 shrubs on Saturday, May 16. This critical project will improve habitat that was burned in the Whitney Fire of 2022. If the prospect of doing something good isn’t enough to get your (gloved) hands dirty, how about a free hot lunch? Pheasants Forever REALLY knows how to put on a spread. Unfortunately there were no photos available of that. For more information, and to sign up, go to https://wdfw.volunteermatters.org/project-catalog/109. And thank you in advance to all the volunteers that help us accomplish so much more than we could alone!

Photo courtesy WDFW: Volunteers at a past event plant native shrubs at the Swanson Lakes Wildlife Area outside of Davenport.

04/24/2026

If you want to come out for Clays for Conservation in West Richland next year, save the date, it’s March 20, 2027!

04/12/2026

Listen to this episode of Go Flush Yourself where chapter VP Matt Staudenmaier and Clays for Conservation champ Dennin Harding talk about our first annual Clays for Conservation event from last month!

04/12/2026

Sagebrush planted ✅
Habitat improved ✅
Christmas tree structure ✅

Today (4/11/2026) we removed some dead sagebrush plugs from our previous planting day, and replanted with some fresh plugs. Once that was complete we added on to the original planting with more plugs, expanding the planted area almost a 1/3 more!!

We also checked on the Christmas tree shelter, and readjusted some trees that had been dislodged, good news it has been used by a variety of birds, however no nesting areas were observed.

Thank you Dennin, Kelly, Mckaden, and Rex for all your help on this project!
📷DHarding
📷RSherburn