Jim Bliven This is Me

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1. 1. www.theoutdoorwire.com

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   Published on: 2/19/2008   Last Visited: 2/28/2008

   The 2007 Nebraska Master Conservationist of the Year award went to Jim Bliven, habitat chairperson with the Dakota/Thurston Counties PF Chapter.
   
   Nebraska boasts 60 PF chapters and 3 QF chapters accounting for 11,000 of the organization's 120,000 members.For the past 4 years in a row, chapters have spent over $2 million each year in the state on habitat projects and youth conservation education.Historically, Nebraska PF/QF has spent over $20.6 million on wildlife habitat conservation.Those funds have translated into 69,770 habitat projects, benefiting 2,244,946 total acres for pheasants, quail and other wildlife.For more information on PF and QF in Nebraska, log onto www.NebraskaPF.com.

2. 2. pheasantsforever.org

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   Published on: 2/18/2008   Last Visited: 5/27/2008

   The 2007 Nebraska Master Conservationist of the Year award went to Jim Bliven, habitat chairperson with the Dakota/Thurston Counties PF Chapter.
   
   Nebraska boasts 60 PF chapters and 3 QF chapters accounting for 11,000 of the organization's 120,000 members.For the past 4 years in a row, chapters have spent over $2 million each year in the state on habitat projects and youth conservation education.Historically, Nebraska PF/QF has spent over $20.6 million on wildlife habitat conservation.Those funds have translated into 69,770 habitat projects, benefiting 2,244,946 total acres for pheasants, quail and other wildlife.For more information on PF and QF in Nebraska, log onto www.NebraskaPF.com.

3. 3. www.pheasantsforever.com

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   Published on: 2/7/2007   Last Visited: 12/6/2007

   Nebraska's Bliven practices and preaches conservation
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   Pheasants Forever (PF) awarded Jim Bliven, habitat chairperson with the Dakota/Thurston Counties PF Chapter, the 2007 Nebraska Master Conservationist of the Year award during PF's annual State Habitat Meeting last Saturday.Bliven is the fifth recipient of the award, given annually to a landowner in that state that has worked diligently in support of PF, wildlife habitat and landowner education.
   
   A Dakota and Dixon County landowner, Bliven has an assortment of conservation practices in use; including, 192 acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, 57 acres enrolled in the Wetlands Reserve Program, an Environmental Quality Incentives Program contract, buffers practices and a rotational grazing system.He's also a participant in Nebraska's new Landowner Incentives Program and has performed prescribed burns to reinvigorate the wildlife habitat on his property.He also continues to be a very active volunteer for his local PF chapter.
   
   "Jim exemplifies what we have in mind when we use the term 'Master Conservationist,'" said Pete Berthelsen, PF's Senior Field Coordinator out of Nebraska.
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   "I've always been conservation-minded, interested in wildlife," Bliven said, "As I got older, I started trying to put in some habitat, and one thing led to another."In areas once lacking in pheasants, quail and other wildlife, Bliven is now seeing the fruits of his labor."I say it's like that movie, Field of Dreams," Bliven said of his conservation theory, "If you build it, they will come.I've become obsessed, and I'm always asking myself, 'Where can I put another patch of grassland?'"
   
   Bliven also serves as one of conservation's messengers."The award doesn't just go to a landowner that practices conservation, but one who then exports those ideas to other landowners," Berthelsen said, "Jim has been able to effectively do that."
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   The 63-year-old Bliven resides in rural Dakota County with his wife of 32 years, Jeanine.A fourth-generation farmer, Jim and Jeanine have four children and six grandchildren.