SCI Foundation is proud to be a part of this multi-year study by lending support to the Wyoming Migration Initiative (WMI). This project began in 2011 and was intended to examine movements and habitat use in a non-migratory population of mule deer in western Wyoming. What was discovered shocked researchers, as the collared deer were tracked …
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On August 23, 2018, SCI and SCI Foundation gathered to dedicate the AWLS Staff Cabins. The cabin project, which started as an idea by Audrey Murtland and Sandra Sadler in July 2014 soon got the interest of Education Sables, the governing body for American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS). With this interest, Sables created the AWLS Cabin …
SCI Foundation is proud to team up with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department to uncover previously unknown information about elk habitat usage and movement patterns – information that is starting to help guide elk management decisions for the state wildlife agency. GPS collar data will be turned into ‘Heat …
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SCI Foundation is working with our partners at the Namibia Professional Hunting Association (NAPHA) to conduct the first comprehensive leopard census since 2011. Many who do not understand the need for sustainable use wildlife management have used this data void to create the impression that leopard populations are on a steep decline throughout southern Africa. This has caused …
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Tricia Clary has been a 4th grade teacher at Mesa Elementary for over 10 years. She has dedicated herself to improving her student’s lives not only academically, but physically, and emotionally. Tricia is so deserving of this award not only for her achievements in conservation education, but for her role as a leader in her school, …
Three years ago, SCI Foundation helped the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation release 130 wood bison back into the lower Innoko/Yukon River area of Alaska. The project’s goal was to reintroduce to the wild a species that had been lost over a century ago through changing ecological factors, unregulated hunting and …
The idea of killing an individual animal to preserve a species is a hard one for many people to grasp, especially to an ever increasingly urban-based demographic dominating social media and the popular culture. But, many experts, even outside of the industry, agree with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an internationally recognized organization …
It is an exciting time to be a hunter! I grew up with a dad, Craig Boddington, that hunted all over the world, but it wasn’t until after high school that I got into hunting. I started attending the SCI Conventions the year I graduated high school in 2003, and I haven’t missed one since. The …
If Mom Hunts, Then The Kids Will Hunt Too by Brittany Boddington Read More »
It started with an email from my dad, Paul Baker, with the title “You need to do this!” and a link to the SCIF website and AWLS page. My initial reaction was “here is another spam email from dad”, however, 30 minutes later I was printing out my application, typing an email to Todd Roggenkamp, and …
2nd Grade Teacher Katie Baker Learns About Wildlife Conservation and Giving Back. Read More »
Rob Royalty, Superintendent and Teacher at Thomas-Fay-Custer Unified Schools in Western Oklahoma, came back from attending the American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS) with the idea of establishing an Outdoor Education/ Wildlife Conservation course at his school. He began by creating a syllabus based on the information that he learned at AWLS, and then expanded it to …
