CONSERVATION PROJECTS
Sensory Safari:
A most rewarding and moving
program whereby individuals with visual impairment are offered
a unique opportunity to “see” wildlife through
the sense of touch.
By utilizing thousands of donated and borrowed
animal mounts, skins, skulls, and horns, tens of thousands
of individuals who are visually impaired and disabled have
been able to gain a “visual” perspective of what
nature’s animals are like. Each year, SCI member volunteers
assist between 60,000 to 70,000 participants through a network
of full mounted, table displays, and Sensory Safari trailers
describing the animal’s size, sounds, habitats and behaviors.
Whether touching the inside of an alligator’s long snout,
feeling the serpentine neck of a giraffe, stroking the thick
fur of a bear, or hearing the game calls of waterfowl and
big game, the participants get to experience what even many
sighted people have not.
Homer Tompkins of the North Texas Chapter of
SCI was instrumental in developing and organizing Sensory
Safaris that other SCI chapters now implement.
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here for more info.
Sportsmen Against Hunger: The
North Texas Chapter of SCI is actively helping local community
efforts in their fight against hunger. This year we helped
the Tarrant Area Food Bank collect more than 6,500 pounds
of protein meat, mainly from hunters’ freezers, that
will go directly to helping those less fortunate. In October 2006,
the North Texas Chapter of SCI was on hand at Cabela’s
to collect meat from hunters who wanted to clear out their
freezers.
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here for more info.
AWLS (American Wilderness Leadership School): The American Wilderness Leadership School (AWLS),
is the SCI Foundation’s educational facility located
in Jackson, Wyoming. The school offers summer programs to
teach educators how to include the outdoors and conservation
topics into their school’s curriculum. There are 8-day
teacher workshops that include firearm safety, archery, fly
tying, wilderness survival, outdoor interpretive techniques,
and wildlife conservation. The North Texas Chapter of SCI
was proud to award Keith Martz, a teacher from Briarhill Middle
School in the Lewisville Independent School District with
a full scholarship to AWLS.
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here for more info.
Safari In A Box: Safari in a Box
is a K-12 education kit designed to provide exciting, hands-on
learning. It gives teachers and others who work with young
people resources and ideas to introduce youth to important
concepts of habitat, wildlife management and impacts resulting
from human and wildlife interactions.
Safari in a Box offers children and adults a
hands-on wildlife experience in an urban, suburban, or rural
setting, in or out of doors. For many, the kit is the gateway
to appreciation of the outdoor world and provides their only
contact with a wild animal. Safari in a Box helps adults and
young people in our increasingly urban environment re-establish
their connection with our land and their link to the natural
world.
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here for more info.
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