2012 Dinner and Silent Auction
Please join T. Boone Pickens and Park Cities Quail in honoring Ted Turner with the 2012 T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award.
The 2012 Park Cities Quail Dinner and Auction shall be held at the Frontiers of Flight Museum on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
The Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award
The award was created by Park Cities Quail to recognize sportsmen who have distinguished themselves by living a life of adventure, love of the outdoors, respect for natural resources, and most of all those who have demonstrated a spirit of giving back and making it possible for others to enjoy the sporting life.
Past winners include:
- 2011–RAY MURSKI
- 2010–BOB CARTER
- 2009–RAY SASSER
- 2008–BOONE PICKENS
- 2007–WALTER KELLOGG
How you can help
You can help by becoming a Presenting Sponsor, Dinner Sponsor, Covey Sponsor, or Bobwhite Sponsor; donating an item or making a direct donation; and, of course, attending the Annual Dinner and Auction on March 8, 2012.
If you have additional questions regarding Sponsorships, Donations, or any other aspect of Park Cities Quail please feel free to contact: Scott Asbury at 214-566-8699 or SAsbury@3lrealtygroup.com; Matt Perry-Miller at 214-202-9975 or matt@lcrgusa.com; Joe Crafton at Joe.Crafton@crossmark.com; or Bubba Wood at 214-505-2484 or mfwood@airmail.net.
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PARK CITIES QUAIL ANNOUNCES TED TURNER AS THE
2012 T. BOONE PICKENS LIFETIME SPORTSMAN AWARD RECIPIENT
Dallas, TX 2012 – Park Cities Quail (PCQ) will honor entrepreneur, conservationist and avid sportsman, Ted Turner, with the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award at its annual Dinner and Auction at the Frontiers of Flight Museum on March 8, 2012.
“We are pleased to honor Ted Turner with this award. He has a global reputation as a conservationist and humanitarian. Ted is a man of action, who uses his considerable resources and influence to make this world a better place,” said PCQ Chairman Joe Crafton. “Lesser known is Ted’s passion for quail hunting. As the owner of several respected ranches and plantations, Ted has restored habitat, funded research and created opportunities for hundreds of youth and sportsmen to get outdoors and share his favorite pastimes.”
“I applaud the work of Park Cities Quail and its grass-roots fundraising for research and education,” said Ted Turner. “I look forward to attending the event in Dallas on March 8 and swapping bird hunting stories with my friend Boone Pickens.”
“This is the sixth year of our event and it continues to get better,” 2012 PCQ Dinner and Auction Chairman Scott Asbury explained. “We have a great party that is becoming known as ‘Conservation’s Greatest Night’.” In its history, the event has resulted in over $1.9 million in direct donations to the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch in Roby, Texas and the Texas Bobwhite Brigade.
“Unlike most sporting conservation groups, Park Cities Quail is 100% volunteer. A committee of eighteen committed volunteers makes it all possible. This allows us to keep our expenses extremely low and maximize our donation to the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch,” Crafton said.
The Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch in Roby, Texas is a 4,700-acre research and demonstration facility dedicated to fostering the understanding and management of bobwhite and scaled quail. The ranch’s mission is to “sustain Texas’ wild quail hunting heritage for this and future generations.” The Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation has funded $2 million in research to be completed in the region over the next three years.
Ted Turner is chairman of the Turner Foundation, an independent family foundation which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect the earth’s climate, safeguarding environmental health, protecting and maintaining wildlife habitat, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates; and co-founder of Ted’s Montana Grill restaurant chain, which operates 44 locations nationwide. Turner is also chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc. a private company which manages his business interests, land holdings and investments, including the oversight of 2 million acres in 12 states and in Argentina, and more than 55,000 bison head. In addition, he is chairman of the United Nations Foundation and co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. To learn more about Ted Turner, visit www.tedturner.com
The Lifetime Sportsman Award is a specially commissioned, one-of-a-kind bronze sculpture of three flushing bobwhite quail by noted sculptor Walter Matia. Tickets to the event are available at www.parkcitiesquail.org.
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ABOUT PARK CITIES QUAIL: Park Cities Quail (PCQ) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization run by a group of Dallas area volunteers who are passionate about sporting tradition and determined to make it available to future generations. As a completely volunteer organization, PCQ donates nearly 100% of every dollar raised towards quail research and youth education. In the past five years this group of individuals has raised and donated almost $2,000,000 directly to benefit its cause. www.parkcitiesquail.org.