I and my wife, Nancy, and our two children purchased what is now Noble Ridge Ranch in 1987.   It has been a working cattle and sheep ranch along with 20 acres of christmas trees.  I use to make a yearly hunting trip to eastern Oregon to bird hunt with my dad.   My work as a veterinarian, along with the ranch work, kept me too busy to keep up the tradition of the yearly trips that I loved so much.   Now that I am semi retired from my veterinary work and our kids are grown I have decided to put the extra time and effort into a game bird hunting preserve on my own property.   I am setting aside 80 acres of grass land to use solely for bird hunting.  Other areas of the ranch are being left undisturbed for wild birds to nest and grow.  My goal is to improve the wildlife habitat at the ranch to increase the wild bird population.   I am hoping to raise approximately 1,000 birds annually to release for hunters and also release extra birds to improve the wild population.   My goal is to give hunters, as natural a place to hunt and work their dogs as possible.  We currently have a four year old German Shorthaired Pointer female named Noble Ridge Wild Rose or "Rose" , a three year old GSP male named Noble Ridge Von Greif or "Grif" and a GSP female puppy named Huenenbrink's Pride And Joy or "Joy".   We use them to guide hunts but they are also family members.  

I would like to thank my neighbor Ron Hjort for all his help in putting up our flight pen for our birds.  I would also like to thank Dana Westbrook for supplying all the metal that went around the flight pens.   I also want to thank everybody that has come and hunted our property and supported us in our endeavor. 

I look forward to meeting and making friends with many bird hunting and bird dog enthusiasts young and old.  My only wish is that my Dad could be here by my side but I know he is smiling down from above. 

Duane Stutz