The Hunting Heritage Super Fund Auction and Dinner, hosted by the Kaw Valley Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, will be held March 30 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2206 E. 23rd. The ninth annual fundraising banquet supports wild-turkey conservation.

The doors will open at 5:30 p.m., with a social hour preceding the dinner.

All ticket holders will be eligible to win prizes exclusive to NWTF events. The highest bidders could win sporting art, hunting guns, knives, calls, outdoor equipment and more.

Ticket to the event are $45 single and $55 couple. Membership will help the NWTF support wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands and preserve hunting as a traditional North American sport.

In 1973, when the NWTF was founded, there were an estimated 1.3 million wild turkeys and 1.5 million turkey hunters. Thanks to the work of wildlife agencies and the NWTF’s many volunteers and partners, today there are more than seven million wild turkeys and almost three million turkey hunters.

Since 1985, the NWTF and its cooperators have spent more than $230 million upholding hunting traditions and conserving more than 11.3 million acres of wildlife habitat.

The NWTF is a nonprofit organization with 545,000 members in 50 states and 16 foreign countries. It supports scientific wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands as well as wild turkey hunting as a traditional North American sport.

To join the nation’s fastest growing single species conservation organization, tickets can be reserved by calling Keith Morgison, chairman, at 785-842-3916, or Marcina Wall, treasurer, at 785-249-5289.

For more information about the NWTF, log on to the organizations’ Web site at www.nwtf.org, e-mail the group at nwtf@nwtf.net or call (800) THE-NWTF.