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Christine Rolka Mandy Harling Director of Education National JAKES Coordinator

Christine Rolka Mandy Harling Director of Education National JAKES Coordinator Tom Glines Lynn Lewis-Weis Senior Regional Director, MN Regional Biologist, GA Sean Lamothe Regional Director, GA. Hunters Today.

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Christine Rolka Mandy Harling Director of Education National JAKES Coordinator

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  1. Christine Rolka Mandy Harling • Director of Education National JAKES Coordinator • Tom Glines Lynn Lewis-Weis • Senior Regional Director, MN Regional Biologist, GA • Sean Lamothe • Regional Director, GA

  2. Hunters Today • 67 % of hunters are over the age of 35 • Hunters age 16-24 make up 14% • 80% of Americans live in an urban area, this has doubled in the last century. • Only 6% of the U.S. population hunts • That 6% of the population funds over 80% of wildlife management in the United States.

  3. Reporting & Tracking • Save the Hunt Coordinators • Create 30,000 hunters by 2014 Hunting Heritage program strategies:

  4. 2012 Outreach Activity

  5. Save the Hunt tactics: • Hunter Education • Mentored Hunts • Turkey Hunting 101 • Dove Hunts

  6. Save the Hunt plan examples: MN- Tom Glines, Senior Regional Director

  7. MN Youth Mentor Turkey Hunt • 12 years of success – over 300 hunt youth annually. • Dept of Natural Resources Promotes Hunt and collects applications • MN Chapters of the NWTF host local hunts • Each local hunt has a “Base Camp” that youth apply for • Each local hunt has a Hunt – Lead Coordinator that organizes Mentor and assigns them a youth.

  8. MN Youth Mentor Turkey Hunt • Three main components – • 3 Hour Wild Turkey Clinic – biology, hunting, and safety • Two half days of hunting until noon (opt. to hunt all day) • Turkey Camp Luncheon – 1st day of hunt to have all participants share their morning experiences. • Benefits • Creating new hunters – we teach the youth AND the adult! • Many chapters have gained committee members and/or banquet attendees! • Success is measured in the experience – not just bagging the bird – but harvest rate has been as high as 40%! • Doors opened for ACCESS to County Parks, Refuges, that otherwise wouldn’t get hunted. • Lots of media attention about the hunt – good PR for the NWTF!

  9. MN Youth Mentor Turkey Hunt

  10. Save the Hunt plan examples: • GA- Lynn Lewis-Weis, Regional Biologist & • Sean Lamothe, Regional Director

  11. GA Save the Hunt Strategy: • Additional public lands hunts - Savannah NWR 2014 Youth Hunt & Hunt and Learn Program • Shared NWTF/GADNR – Youth Hunt Coordinator position • Develop hunt mentor network • Local chapter involvement: 1 hunt/banquet • Youth/mobility impaired early season hunt

  12. GA Save the Hunt Strategy: • More Hunt and Learn events • JAKES/WS/WITO attendees graduate to mentored hunt • Identify private landowners to host hunts • Goals & measurements to judge progress • Critically evaluate current Superfund structure

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