Tuesday, March 18, 2014

TX Park Cities Quail event grosses record $1 million-plus


By RAY SASSER

The event that’s been called “Conservation’s Greatest Night” lived up to its billing March 6 when Park Cities Quail grossed more than $1 million during its annual fund-raising auction and banquet.

PCQ committee chairman Joe Crafton said the amount raised is easily a record, though it’ll take awhile to figure the net proceeds. All of PCQ’s net proceeds are used for quail research. The PCQ event is organized by a volunteer committee. Event speeches by T. Boone Pickens and George Strait are posted on YouTube. Strait received the T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award.

Pickens paid $130,000 in the live auction for four VIP tickets to Strait’s last concert, and he also donated a quail hunt for six couples to his Mesa Vista Ranch. The hunt sold for $175,000. The live auction earned $850,000.

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