Mark your calendar for the 1st annual Mule Deer Foundation banquet August 4, 2012, which will be held at the Grand Starz Hall. All funds raised will be used for West Texas mule deer projects and Brown County 4-H shooting sports.

Mule deer are the only declining big game animal in the US. The Mule Deer Foundation is working hard to turn this around with projects such as, habitat restoration, highway crossings, fawn tracking and predator control projects. With your help we can bring mule deer back.

Couples tickets are $57 for dinner for two and open bar all night. From now to Aug 3 its buy one get one free for couples tickets.  Twenty guns will be raffled off that night. Mule deer / Elk hunts, ND pheasant hunt, MN cabin lake fishing trip and African safari will be in the auction.

Tickets are available at KOXE, Weakley-Watson sporting goods, Sportsman Center, and Wendlee Broadcasting or see Russ at Chili’s around 5 to 6pm or call 325-642-1644. Visit Russ’s column, Russell Outdoors, for informative wildlife articles on brownwoodnews.com.