The National Capital Chapter supports Youth Hunting Programs because todays hunting youth are tomorrows conservationists.
One of these programs is the Generations Deer Hunting Workshop held every year at the Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Prince William County, VA.
Occoquan Bay NWR is one of more than 540 national wildlife refuges and thousands of waterfowl management areas in the National Wildlife Refuge System administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The National Wildlife Refuge System is a network of lands and waters managed specifically of the protection of wildlife and its habitat and represents the most comprehensive 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 suburban setting that offered hunters a view of high rise buildings form their deer stands,
The SCI National Capital Chapter donated a Lifetime Hunting License to be awarded to a luck youth hunter attending the Generations Deer Hunting Workshop.
John Floyd, President of SCI National Capital Chapter presents Caroline Nepomucen with a check for a lifetime hunting license while Jerry Sims, Wildlife Biologist Manager with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries look on. The SCI National Capital Chapter is proud to support the Generations Deer Hunting Workshop.
National Capital Chapter Safari Club International
See the Youth Hunter page at WWW.SafariClub.org for more information about the nation wide youth programs sponsored by Safari Club International.