MeatEater’s Clay Newcomb announced as the 2025 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic Keynote Speaker
Arkansas native and avid outdoorsman will join the celebration of Quail Forever’s 20th anniversary in Kansas City
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are thrilled to introduce Clay Newcomb – writer, filmmaker, mule-skinner, hound trainer, artist, conservationist and trad archer – as the keynote speaker and featured guest for the 2025 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic celebration dinner. Passes are now available to hear Newcomb’s message and attend the nation’s foremost upland hunting and conservation tradeshow coming to the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City on March 7-9, presented by Federal Ammunition.
“We need groups like Quail Forever who are interested in habitat and conservation — not just state agencies but citizen groups,” Newcomb said. “When a resource is culturally valued it will be protected. I’m very excited to attend this year’s Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic as the keynote speaker and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Quail Forever with everyone.”
A member of the MeatEater and FirstLite teams, Newcomb is a 7th-generation Arkansan who grew up in the Ouachita Mountains. His skills and passions as a hunter are diverse: If it walks, crawls or flies in Arkansas, he has hunted it.
Most importantly, Newcomb is a father and husband who prides himself in balancing his responsibilities and passions. In the short film, “Newcomb”, he shares his methods for integrating business, the outdoors and family in his life.
Purchase passes now to witness Clay Newcomb’s keynote speech at the 2025 National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic. Member and non-member admission options include full weekend passes, the Friday Night Upland Rally on March 7, and the National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic Banquet Celebration Dinner featuring Clay Newcomb on Saturday evening. Click HERE to review pass options.
National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2025, presented by Federal Ammunition, will be the nation’s largest tradeshow and convention for upland hunters, landowners, bird dog lovers, and wildlife habitat conservationists. Coming back to this year’s event will be the “Concert for Conservation” featuring Muscadine Bloodline – new seats were just released to the public, act now to reserve yours today.
About Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever make up the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. This community of more than 477,000 members, supporters and partners is dedicated to the protection of our uplands through habitat improvement, public access, education and advocacy. A network of 754 local chapters spread across North America determine how 100 percent of their locally raised funds are spent — the only national conservation organization that operates through this grassroots structure. Since its creation in 1982, the organization has dedicated more than $1 billion to 580,000 habitat projects benefiting 28.8 million acres.
