PROJECTS WE SUPPORT

Great Falls Chapter Giving Back for 21 years

(Over $1.7 million and counting!!)

Here’s how we do it:

  • $5,000 to MTFWP for the reintroduction of the Big Horn Sheep into the Little Belt Mountains.

  • Committed $10,000 to MTFWP for the reintroduction of the Pine Marten to the Little Belt Mountains.

  • $25,000 toward the Devil’s Kitchen Elk Movement and Special Ecology Project that will run from 2019 to 2023.

  • Committed $20,000 toward the Everson Bench Conservati0n Easement

  • Committed $5000 toward the Whiskey Ridge Conservation Easement

  • $1480 donated to 2 boys whose father was killed in Afghanistan 10 years ago. His wish was they would learn to hunt. The money is to pay for out-of-state hunting license and game processing for a hunt scheduled here in Montana.

  • $5,000 donated to an injured vet to go to Namibia for a hunt donated by Jan Oelofse Safaris.

  • $3000 towards Scholastic 3D Archery (S3DA) clubs in Helena, Cascade & Great Falls

  • $2300 Guide Outfitters Assn of BC (GOABC) to help battle the Canadian Government

  • $1,700 to Red Horse Company who deployed in March 2021

  • $1000 towards Missouri River Shooting Association for cement and access improvement

  • $2,500 to a Biology Student at University of Providence for work and training as a summer wildlife technician inter/volunteer for Judith -Mussel Shell Ranger District.

  • $50,000 donated towards the Falls Creek Acquisition Product which adds 442 acres to the Helena-Lewis&Clark National Forest along with improved public access to 26,000 acres of public land.

  • $307,530 to Montana FWP for Governor’s Mountain Goat Tag

  • Donated $9,300 to Grace Home Veterans Center in Great Falls

  • $22,000 to Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs – North Middle School Program & Camp Walleye

  • $11,000 to East and North Middle School for hunting bulletin board sponsorship and prizes

  • Donated $1000 to Boy Scouts of America Pack 4143 towards tree planting/cleanup of Black Eagle Park.

  • Donated $5,600 for Elk Research Project in Central Montana with FWP

  • Donated $2,000 to Big Snowy Aspen & Meadow Restoration to MFWP

  • Donated $5,000 to Garfield Country Fire Foundation

  • Donated $2,000 to St Jude’s Hospital

  • Donated$1,000 to Paragrin Falcon Research in British Columbia

  • Donated $2,000 toward Sage Grouse Research

  • Partnered with MFWP, donated $50,000 toward the Whitetail Prairie land acquisition

  • Donated $5,000 to reseed acreage by Jordan, Montana

  • Donated $3,800 toward the feeding & transplanting of turkeys to Montana

  • Donated $10,000 to the Olson Conservation Easement Project through Montana FWP

  • Support University of Providence Girls Basketball & Boys Wrestling Teams $5,500

  • Sportsmen Against Hunger donated 152,000 lbs. of game meat and 12 rifles

  • Purchased $500 Archery Backstop netting for the indoor Highwood Youth Archery Range

  • Donated $28,500 to FWP for the relocation of mountain goats to the Ear Mountain WMA

  • Donated $6,500 to Christian Sportsman Banquet & Youth Hunting Program since 2010

  • Donated $4,500 towards youth archery programs in Region 4

  • Donated $1,000 for youth waterfowl/upland bird educational clinics in Region 4

  • Donated a meat grinder valued at over $5,000 to Set Free Ministries in Great Falls.

  • We conduct two (2) highway clean-ups per year on US Highway 89 (mile markers 59 thru 61)

  • Donated $2,000 to Eagle Mount for an Equipony exercise system

  • Provided $20,000 towards Chokecherry Bend and Riverdale Ranch Conservation Easements

  • Donated $1,000 to Walleyes Unlimited to help build a new boat dock at Lake Francis

  • Sponsored a handicapped hunter on an elk hunt $1,000

  • Provided $500 for the Cascade County Sheriff’s and FWP Warden Youth Hunter Program

  • Sponsored a disabled youth hunter on an African safari $5,000

  • Donations equaling $10,000 towards hunter orange vests for the Hunter Safety Program

  • Conduct Sensory Safari at the School for Deaf and Blind

  • Active in the USFWS Benton Lake Refuge CCP Process to enhance local waterfowl hunting

  • Donated in excess of $1,000 worth of beef jerky to American soldiers in Iraq

  • Donated a $1,350 mechanical deer to MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks

  • Sponsored members on Health and Humanitarian Projects $10,000

  • Sponsored $28,000 toward College Scholarships to 28 area high school seniors

  • Donated $6,000 toward the Great Falls Shooting Complex

  • Donated $12,500 to the Sun River Skeet Club for skeet field #4

  • Donated $500 for permanent stock hitching rails at Beartooth Wildlife Management Area

  • Continued to partner with conservation organizations such as DU, NWTF, PF, NRA, RMEF, Walleyes Unlimited, etc. to support such efforts as the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act $32,000

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SCI – FIRST FOR HUNTERS

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