Long known as a premier annual event for big-game hunters at home and abroad, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) convention and expo will expand in 2012 to include attractions focused on quail and other upland birds.

This week Benelli On Assignment (BOA) host, Joe Coogan and Benelli USA VP of Marketing and Communications, Stephen McKelvain travel to South Texas to take on the challenge of finding big Rio Grande "long beards" in the South Texas brush county of Sarco Creek Ranch, near the historic town of Goliad.

The South Texas coastline offers sportsmen a wide variety of outstanding hunting and fishing opportunities. But the very best is enjoyed the most by waterfowlers hunting along this classic Texas coastline wintering ground, offering shooters a chance at two of wildfowling's most impressive ducks-Northern pintails and redheads.

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever today praised a decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to release $50 million in funding for the "Open Fields" Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program.

Every four years, the U.S. fields an Olympic shooting team known worldwide for achieving success in a most un-contemporary way-a rich and distinctly American background in traditional field sports.

The 621 Pheasants Forever chapters, 103 Quail Forever chapters and 125,000 members of "The Habitat Organization" nationwide completed over 22,000 wildlife habitat projects in 2009, benefitting over 500,000 acres for pheasants, quail and other wildlife. This includes over 8,300 acres of land acquired and then opened to public hunting and recreation as state-managed wildlife areas or federal Waterfowl Production Areas.

Quail Unlimited Chapters from across the state of Texas announced that they have unilaterally resigned from Quail Unlimited following prolonged issues with the national organization based in Edgefield, South Carolina.

Upcoming public hunts on the Chaparral Wildlife Management Area set for January 8-10, 2010, will be limited to doves only due to drought impacts on quail populations.

Another exciting season of Women on Target(r) Hunting Excursions is about to begin. Women hunters with experience ranging from first-timer s to the most seasoned of veterans are provided with the opportunity to have a unique and enjoyable hunting adventure.

Texas Trophy Hunters Association (TTHA) is celebrating hunters during Hunter Appreciation Month! From wildlife conservation to economically supporting our local, state and national communities, hunters take better care of our planet than any other group of people and TTHA wants to say, "Thanks!"