Kansas City, Mo. - January 20, 2012 - If you own land anywhere in the country, you can receive free land-use management consultation at Pheasants Forever's National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic 2012.  The Landowner Habitat Help Room, presented by Best Buy & Geek Squad, will feature leading technology and is free with paid admission to the show. National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic runs February 17, 18 & 19 at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City.

Thanks to Best Buy, the official Technology Partner of National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic 2012, the Landowner Habitat Help Room will offer a dozen work stations featuring large-screen monitors providing a detailed look at each piece of property. Accompanied by a trained Pheasants Forever or Quail Forever biologist, or partnering biologist from Missouri Department of Conservation, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, or the U.S. Department of Agriculture, landowners will be educated on ways they can improve their acres for wildlife and even what local, state, and federal conservation programs they qualify for enrollment.

"Your next wildlife habitat project starts at Pheasant Fest," says Steve Riley, Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist Manager for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, "The Landowner Habitat Help Room is one of the many ways Pheasants Forever's premiere event goes beyond a trade show, and becomes an interactive event where wildlife habitat is the main focus and a lasting impact is made."

Landowner Habitat Help Room supported by Best Buy & Geek Squad
With the most current streaming data available, the Landowner Habitat Help Room will offer topographic and aerial maps on any piece of property in the entire country. All you need to do is:

• Attend National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic 2012, visit the Landowner Habitat Help Room inside the Kansas City Convention Center – Bartle Hall.  
• Bring the legal description of your property (township, range, and section) or the ability to pinpoint that property’s exact location on the map.
• That's it! You'll leave with a free wildlife habitat management plan for your land.

Landowners have seen the value of the Landowner Habitat Help Room at National Pheasant Fest. More than 1,800 of them have taken advantage of this service at past shows, leading to more than 185,000 habitat acres that have been evaluated for management recommendations by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever wildlife biologists during Pheasant Fest events since 2005.

Attend National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic 2012
The country's largest event for upland hunters, sport dog owners and wildlife habitat conservationists, combining a national outdoor tradeshow, wildlife habitat seminar series, and family event complete with puppies, tractors, shotguns, and wildlife art. The event is presented by Cabela's.

This year marks the inaugural Quail Classic, held in conjunction with National Pheasant Fest. Quail Classic will highlight all things quail, and will be the most in-depth dialogue of quail in the country. Through daily seminars, keynote speakers and attendee participation, the Quail Classic portion of the 2012 event will be a first, representing the strong tradition of bobwhite quail hunting and conservation found in Kansas, Missouri, and across the Great Plains and southeast United States.

For additional inquiries regarding National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2012, including exhibitor information, contact Brad Heidel, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's Director of Corporate and Special Event Sales, at (651) 209-4956 / Email Brad. For all other inquiries, please contact Rehan Nana, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's Public Relations Specialist, at (651) 209-4973 / Email Rehan.

Pheasants Forever, including its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have more than 130,000 members and 700 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empowered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent, the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grassroots structure.

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