PROJECTS WE SUPPORT
Great Falls Chapter Giving Back for 18 years
Over $1.4 million and counting!!
Here’s how we do it:
- Committed up to $25,000 toward the Devil’s Kitchen Elk Movement and Special Ecology Project that will run from 2019 to 2023.
- $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.
- $208,530 to Montana FWP for Governor’s Mountain Goat Tag
- Donated $6,000 to Grace Home Veterans Center in Great Falls
- Donated $1000 to Boy Scouts of America Pack 4143 towards tree planting/cleanup of Black Eagle Park.
- $11,000 to Hooked on Fishing Not Drugs – North Middle School Program
- $10,000 to East and North Middle School for hunting bulletin board sponsorship and prizes
- 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 $1000 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 $5,500 to Christian Sportsman Banquet 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 $30,000
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SCI – FIRST FOR HUNTERS