{"id":3531,"date":"2018-11-28T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:30:08","slug":"madera-morning-lions-help-at-wheelchair-pheasant-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-morning-lions-help-at-wheelchair-pheasant-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera Morning Lions help at wheelchair pheasant hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3531\" class=\"elementor elementor-3531\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72c19dc9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"72c19dc9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6222c38c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6222c38c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The 17th annual Pheasant Hunt for the Mobility Impaired took place under sunny blue skies at one of the Case Vlot farm properties \u2014 an alfalfa field situated as far as west possible in Madera County on Road 1.<\/p><p>The hunt occurred Nov. 17.<\/p><p>Benjamin Lewis, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, has organized the event for the last seven years, bringing together various groups of volunteers.<\/p><p>Biologist Lewis and several assistants from the Department of Fish and Wildlife provide the game birds, China Ring-Necked Pheasants, raised by the Department specifically for this purpose.<\/p><p>A key segment of volunteers are the dog handlers who professionally raise and train the pointers, which eagerly quiver with excitement to do their part. There are local high school students with sufficient heft to push wheelchairs through rutted fields.<\/p><p>Among the volunteers are members of the Madera Breakfast Lions who serve a lunch of hotdogs and hamburgers to the ravenous assemblage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 17th annual Pheasant Hunt for the Mobility Impaired took place under sunny blue skies at one of the Case Vlot farm properties \u2014 an alfalfa field situated as far as west possible in Madera County on Road 1. The hunt occurred Nov. 17. Benjamin Lewis, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,36],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-charity","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}