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ODWC Contributions – Since the foundation of the CONSERVATION EDUCATION SCHOLARHIP ‐ AMERICAN
Oklahoma Station Chapter of SCI, over $ 300,000 has been WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ‐ Each year, our Chapter
funded for various Wildlife Department programs either and the Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation sponsored two
through direct funding or purchase of equipment for ODWC Oklahoma educators, and some years 3, for an 8‐day
use. experience at SCI’s Granite Ranch near Jackson, Wyoming,
in fields of wildlife ecology, firearm safety and shooting
Education sports, camping, white‐water rafting, stream ecology,
natural resource management with a base knowledge from
OSU SHOTGUN CLUB – OSU Gun Club Representing which to evaluate conservation efforts. They brought this
Oklahoma State University, is dedicated to practicing and training back to their classrooms to educate thousands of
teaching gun safety while also participating in recreational Oklahoma youth on the value of hunting as a wildlife
shooting. We participate in competitions with other management tool. Outdoor skills are also learned which
universities all over the United States, including but not include wildlife conservation, habitat management and
limited to Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, and others. additional outdoor sports skills are taught and leaned
OSCSCI worked with the gun club to fund their new Trailer including survival and all safety features of the shooting
and cargo container for on‐site storage for all equipment as sports and other activities such as camping, hiking, fishing,
well as Liberty Safe for storing shotguns used by club wildlife and plant identification etc. Now many schools
members. offer more outdoor classes than in the past decade.

SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR YOUTH EDUCATION STEP PROGRAM – Okla. Dept of Wildlife Conservation’s
& OUTDOOR PROGRAMS – Archery in the Schools program Shotgun Training Education Program (“STEP”) – OSCSCI
($ 19,500), Last Frontier Council ‐ Boy Scouts of America; supported this program by originally purchasing a custom
Eddy Eagle Gun Safety program; Make a Wish Foundation, built 26‐foot long gooseneck equipment trailer. OSC
Youth Hunter Education Challenge, & the 4H Youth Shooting purchased two additional trailers. These trailers carry the
Team. Further provided initial funding to the ODWC to program’s portable trap machines, firearms, ammunition,
facilitate The Oklahoma Scholastic Shooting Programs and safety and gun maintenance equipment. In the past 10
introduction in the schools of the Explore Bow Hunting years, 100,000 persons in the state of Oklahoma (65% are
Program youth under the age of 18) have participated in STEP,
leaning the importance of hunting as a conservation and
OKLAHOMA CITY GUN CLUB YOUTH SHOOTING AREA –
management tool and improving their shooting skills to
Helped fund the structures needed to create a separate
ensure the humane harvesting of wildlife.
youth shooting area and the gun club with a $1500.00
donation OPERATION GAME THIEF TRAILER – Okla. Dept of Wildlife
Conservation’s Operation Game Thief (“OGT”) – OSC‐
OKLAHOMA DEPT OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COLORING
SCI supported this program by supplying funding in excess
BOOKS ‐ We purchased 65,000 wildlife conservation
of $28,500. The OGT is a program of the Oklahoma
coloring books for school children.
Department of Wildlife Conservation designed specifically
CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION ‐An annual youth essay to stop illegal killing of the fish and game which belong to
writing contest that focuses on America’s hunting heritage YOU, whether you’re a sportsman or not. It’s a big problem
sponsored through the Okla. Dept of Wildlife Conservation. with no simple solution. Help from the public sportsmen,
Two students in the 11‐14 age category win scholarships to makes a difference. .
attend a weeklong conservation program. One boy and one One day before the opening of a recent deer season, two
girl, 15‐17, each win a guided hunt and presentation of their men killed four whitetail bucks. Late one summer night,
mounts at the Annual OSCSCI Awards Banquet & Charity three men steered their boat across a state reservoir,
Fundraiser. Norm Strung Youth Writing Contest – all stopped at their illegal net site and hauled in a load of
category winners are put in for the National award years. striped bass and other open‐water fish they could sell for $1
Our Oklahoma kids win this VERY regularly! a pound on the commercial market. .