National Wild Turkey Federation Texas local chapters and partners invest over $1 Million for 2025
Photo credit: Jospeh Richards
Marble Falls — The Texas NWTF State Chapter recently met in Marble Falls to review Hunting Heritage Super Fund project proposals for the 2025 fiscal year funding awards. After the reviewing and ranking process, proposals were approved by the Texas NWTF State Chapter Board of Directors. The board budgeted $77,225 for conservation projects and $77,841 for hunting heritage projects. NWTF conservation project award funding will be matched with over $954,000 in partner or grant funds for the approved projects, equating to over $1 million in NWTF mission-related projects in 2025.
“I commend our Texas NWTF State Chapter and local Texas NWTF chapter members for working so hard to raise these funds to further our mission in Texas,” said Annie Farrell, NWTF district biologist. “From wild turkey research to habitat enhancements across the state, our dedicated volunteers make it a priority to put their hard-earned dollars toward critical projects that greatly impact the wild turkey and our hunting heritage in the Lone Star State.”
These projects will conserve vital habitat in Texas, including:
$10,250 to support the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with equipment purchases for tracking and trapping wild turkeys.
$5,000 to support wild turkey research at Texas Tech University.
$30,975 to support Texas Parks and Wildlife Department habitat enhancement projects for invasive species removal on Gus Engeling WMA, Kerr WMA, Mason Mountain WMA and Matador WMA, impacting over 1,400 acres.
$7,000 to support Texas A&M Forest Service I.D. Fairchild State Forest with 732 acres of understory herbicide treatment.
$5,000 to support the East Texas Prescribed Burn Association with the purchase of prescribed burning equipment.
$15,000 to support NWTF’s Waterways for Wildlife Initiative.
$4,000 to support Eastern wild turkey restoration efforts in Texas.
The following projects support education, outreach, hunter access and volunteer development efforts in Texas. Funding includes:
$10,000 to support Texas Wildlife Association’s Texas Youth Hunting Program and Adult Learn to Hunt Program.
$3,757 to support Brazos County 4-H, Katy and Royal 4-H, Victoria 4-H and Athens Archery Booster Club.
$13,500 for NWTF JAKES, Wheelin’ Sportsmen, Women in the Outdoors and youth shooting sports events.
$5,000 for Texas NWTF state scholarship.
$1,500 for a Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society undergraduate and graduate student scholarship for a student studying wild turkeys.
$7,500 for sponsored travel to convention.
$1,000 Bronze Level sponsorship of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation’s Lone Star Land Steward Awards banquet.
$35,584 for miscellaneous expenses, including hunting heritage event equipment, sponsorship of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Association wild turkey meeting and other expenses.
The NWTF’s Hunting Heritage Super Fund is a decades-long funding program well-known throughout the country as a conservation powerhouse. Created in the NWTF’s formative years, the Super Fund is a volunteer-driven program. The model begins and ends with the organization’s backbone – NWTF volunteers in every state raise money at banquets and other types of fundraisers and then allocate a significant portion of those funds back into meaningful conservation and outreach projects in their respective states and beyond. It’s a picture-perfect example of how the NWTF truly operates as a national federation.