QDMA Press Release
Westervelt’s Dave Edwards Earns
Al Brothers Professional Deer Manager Honors
Bogart, Ga. – Dave Edwards, manager of Westervelt Wildlife Services, has been named the Quality Deer Management Association’s 2007 Al Brothers Professional Deer Manager of the year. Edwards was honored during the 2007 QDMA National Convention & Whitetail Expo, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Named for former Texas Wildlife Biologist Al Brothers, who is generally recognized as the father of Quality Deer Management, the award annually goes to a full-time wildlife and habitat manager for contributions to deer, deer hunting and deer management.
Edwards, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., earned a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife & Forest Conservation from the University of Florida, and a master’s degree in Wildlife Management from Mississippi State University. He has extensive habitat-management experience and is certified as a burn manager, herbicide applicator and Quality Vegetation Advisor.
In his role as manager of Westervelt Wildlife Services, he oversees a team of biologists and other staff that implements Quality Deer Management guidelines on more than 1 million acres across the southeastern U.S.
Edwards has numerous credits as a contributor to Quality Whitetails magazine, the QDMA’s membership journal, and he has been a featured member of the experts team on Quality Whitetails Television. He also has been a featured speaker at dozens of QDMA educational events and at several QDMA National Conventions.
Over the past year, Edwards also has volunteered his time as a member of the “dream team” of biologists and habitat experts who assisted Certified Wildlife Biologist/QDMA Executive Director Brian Murphy and other staff members in the development of management plans for Thomson/Center Arms’ Greg Ritz’s “Game Trails” property in western Kentucky; for Will Primos’ “River Run” property in Mississippi; and the “Mallard’s End” property, also in Mississippi.
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Membership in QDMA is open to anyone interested in better deer and better deer hunting, and committed to ethical hunting, sound deer management and the preservation of the deer-hunting heritage. To learn more about QDMA and why it is the future of deer hunting, call (800) 209-DEER [(800) 209-3337] or visit www.QDMA.com.
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