Donated by The Peregrine Fund

Dates - October 2019.
Location - Likely Montana or Wyoming TBD with winner and depending on best game availability. Opportunity to hunt with shotguns possible depending on season dates and accessibility.
2 days - 2 nights
The winning bidder and a guest can expect to partake in one of the oldest traditions of securing protein known to hunting, watching these masters of the sky do what they've been honed to do while pursuing prey at speeds in excess of 100 and sometimes as great as 200mph. Join the team of fine hunting dogs, fanatic hunters, along with fine food, and tales of hunting and conservation.

Join falconers in the field to behold the mastery of some of the world's most impressive hunters. Sure it happens in nature daily, but you'll be changed by seeing it up close, first hand. To taste fresh-caught game by the warmth of an open fire is to reach back in time. Join us to celebrate our wildlife conservation and hunting heritage.

For the past 50 million years, raptors have been evolving in nearly every habitat imaginable, preying on species ranging from grasshoppers, small birds and mammals to antelope in Africa. These quintessential feathered hunters have worked their way to the top of the food chain, not by accident; they hunt to eat and hunt to survive!

For all of recorded history, humans have revered these masterful hunters and borrowed their likenesses to represent strength, honor, and dignity of cultures and nations. The embodiment of survival, humans have partnered with raptors to secure their own protein in what is now referred to as the sport of falconry. This ancient form of hunting is still practiced today and moreover, without the falconer, some of today's most iconic raptor species, like the peregrine falcon, may have slipped into extinction.

The Peregrine Fund, a private non-profit organization based here in Boise at the World Center for Birds of Prey works to conserve raptors across the globe and retains and celebrates the rich heritage of falconry as demonstrated by the Archives of Falconry at the Boise campus. The scientific products and partnerships to conserve wildlife come in many shapes and forms and The North American Non-Lead Partnership, founded by hunters, is yet another example of hunters demonstrating a conservation ethic unmatched.

Without public lands, many falconer, archers, or gun hunters would have little opportunity to practice these hunting/angling traditions that define our heritage. The North American Non-Lead Partnership invites you to take to our public lands where you'll not only join falcons, bird-dogs, and falconers pursuing feathered quarry like grouse and ducks in the field, but come away with a more complete understanding of the role that we hunters play in securing healthy ecosystems for future generations. You and a guest simply have to meet us in the field, or hell, we'll come get you if you're close enough, and we'll take care of the rest. Two days and two nights (lodging and meals provided) should suffice to talk conservation, witness and thoroughly appreciate this demonstration of the centuries-old practice of falconry on some of our most prized public lands in the West