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(OSCSCI) Oklahoma Station Chapter Safari Conservation
Club International, Supports and Contributes
OKLAHOMA HABITAT DONOR PROGRAM ‐
Funds Locally & Nationally
 Financial support for the Hackberry Flats Wetlands
The future of hunting is up to each one of us. It is our
project, Frederick, OK.
financial donations, our efforts in the political arena, and
our ability to educate the uninformed public of the  Financial support for a “Quality Deer Management”
important role hunting plays in the welfare of the animal program in Lincoln County, OK.
population and their habitat. Our activities and energy must
RESTORATION OF RUFFED GROUSE & PRAIRIE CHICKEN ‐
focus on 3 areas ‐ Conservation, Education, and
Financial support towards restoration of ruffed grouse and
Governmental affairs.
Greater Prairie Chicken habitat in Oklahoma. Support for
We, the members of SCI, are the last best chance that Audubon Society/OSC conservation project to protect the
wildlife has to survive in a healthy habitat, and we have to threatened Lesser Prairie Chicken in Northwest Oklahoma in
preserve our right to hunt. conjunction with the Lesser Prairie Chicken festival.

Oklahoma Station Chapter, SCI is a 501 c (3) Charitable
Status Organization
INTRODUCED EIGHT (8) ELK INTO THE EXISTING HERD IN
Protect the Freedom to Hunt SE. OKLAHOMA ‐ Chapter financed the purchase,
transportation and release of 5 mature bred cow elk and 2
FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM TO mature bulls plus radio‐collar transmitters for monitoring
HUNT & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PRORAMS ‐ Thirty purposes. These 8 elk will improve the gene pool in the
percent (30%) of net monies raised by the Oklahoma Station existing elk herd in SE Oklahoma which is in cooperation
Chapter support programs that provide for full‐time staff with the Timberline Elk Ranch, Cushing, Oklahoma, and the
lobbyists & biologists in Washington, DC. SCI is the ODWC. WE HAVE AN ELK HUNT! Way back OSCSCI
only hunting organization that has full‐time lobbyists & populated the herd, now it is a reality! OK, not just OSCSCI
biologists working to provide sound scientific information to effort but it was key!
influence legislation and regulations that affect hunting
AIR BOAT (18 X 8’), 502 CU. INCH CHEVROLET ENGINE 502
both at the federal and state levels. OVER 70% of HP RATING WAS PURCHASED FOR OKLAHOMA DEPT OF

funds raised by the Oklahoma Station Chapter are used in WILDLIFE CONSERVATION USE. Over the past several years,
Oklahoma for hunting‐education, wildlife‐conservation and the ODWC has worked to develop comprehensive lake‐level
humanitarian‐services programs. plans supporting Japanese millet‐seeding programs on
Oklahoma Corps of Engineers lakes. Most of these areas are

inaccessible to conventional boats due to very shallow

FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO OTHER CHAPTERS FIGHTING ANTI water depths and are quite extensive in size, ranging from
HUNTING REFERENDUMS IN THEIR STATES. Support to just a few acres to several hundred. The airboat offers a
Alaska Chapter to defeat a wolf referendum that would much higher degree of safety and durability, in addition to
decimate ungulates (DEFEATED!). increased accessibility to the seeding areas, essential to
ensuring the program’s continued success. PG 13