Texas quail banquet raises $2.8 million, Costner receives award

  • American actor Kevin Costner was on hand to receive the 2023 T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award at the 17th Annual Parks Cities Quail Coalition Dinner and Auction held recently in Dallas. The banquet raised $2.8 million in net proceeds. PHOTO COURTESY JAY STINE
    American actor Kevin Costner was on hand to receive the 2023 T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award at the 17th Annual Parks Cities Quail Coalition Dinner and Auction held recently in Dallas. The banquet raised $2.8 million in net proceeds. PHOTO COURTESY JAY STINE
Outdoors Writer It was a historic evening for conservation and a grand night for quail as a record crowd recently packed the Armstrong Fieldhouse on the SMU campus in Dallas for the 17th Annual Parks Cities Quail Coalition Dinner and Auction. Auction bidders shattered the Park Cities fundraising record by raising $2.8 million for the organization’s mission called “Conservation’s Greatest Night…

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