

| Youth Hunters |








| The National Capital Chapter suppirts Youth Hunting Programs because today's youth are tommorow's conservationists. Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Occoquan Bay NWR is one of more than 540 National Wildlife Refuges and thousands of waterfowl magement areas in the National Wildlife Refuge System administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Ruge System is a network of lands and waters managed specificaly for the protection of wildlife and its habitat and represents the most comprehense wildlife management program in the world. Twenty miles south of Washington, D. C., at the confluence of the Potomac and Occoquan rivers, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge is an oasis where migrating birds and busy city residents both seek a quiet escape from development. The 642 acre refuge is in a suburban setting that offered hunters a view of high rise buildings from their deer stands, The SCI National Capital Chapter donated a Lifetime Hunting License to be awarded to a lucky youth hunter attending the Generations Deer Hunting Workshop. |
