AUGUST 2020 Thomas Keller Scott Klinger, now a retired agency pheasant and quail biologist, who quickly found strong allies and partners with Pheasants Forever and its associated chapters, which among other things would help to establish habitat within each Wild Pheasant Recovery Area (WPRA). Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Penn State, developed sound research methods and analysis for WPRAs. Pheasants Forever biologists used resources such as the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), the Game Commission's Deferred Use of Grasslands program and other U.S. Department of Agriculture programs to help landowners create ample warmseason grasses for pheasant nesting, brood-rearing and winter cover. An ambitious goal of developing over 60,000 acres of nesting/brood-rearing cover and more than 13,000 acres of winter protective cover was set for the project. 23