QDMA Press Release
Pennsylvania Man Earns National Wildlife Management and Conservation Award
Bogart, Ga. – Dave Bastow, of Edinboro, Pa., has been named the 2006 Al Brothers Nonprofessional Deer Manager of the Year by the Quality Deer Management Association. QDMA recognized Bastow during the 2006 QDMA Awards Luncheon, held during the National Convention and Whitetail Expo in Valley Forge, Pa.
Bastow has spent the past five years practicing Quality Deer Management on a 600-acre parcel in northwestern Pennsylvania. During that time, he has completed significant habitat improvement, including the addition of food plots; a 12-acre pond; and thermal, fawning and escape cover. An aggressive harvest of hardwood timber also provided much improved natural browse for the deer herd using his property.
Bastow also has collected significant data on that herd, and has implemented harvest strategies that have greatly improved the age and sex structures of the deer on the property.
The award is named for retired Texas wildlife biologist Al Brothers, who is recognized as the father of QDM. It honors QDMA members whose passion and enthusiasm for QDM result in major achievements in herd and habitat management.
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Membership in QDMA is open to anyone interested in better deer and better deer hunting, and committed to ethical hunting, sound deer management and the preservation of the deer-hunting heritage. To learn more about QDMA and why it is the future of deer hunting, call (800) 209-DEER [(800) 209-3337] or visit www.QDMA.com.
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