The National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic, the outsized conservation convention and exhibition held annually in different cities around the nation, returns to the Twin Cities for three days beginning Friday, headquartered at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
The celebration is preceded by a film festival Thursday evening at the Pourhouse Downtown in Minneapolis, followed Friday by the event's signature opening-door event, the Bird Dog Parade.
Sponsored by Pheasants Forever (PF) and its companion organization, Quail Forever (QF), the Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic is a wintertime extravaganza that each year attracts more than 30,000 of the groups' members, along with other habitat, hunting, sporting-dog and conservation enthusiasts.
