Houston, TX – Houston Safari Club (HSC) is now accepting entries for their annual Hunting and Photo Awards Contests. The winners will be announced at the annual HSC Convention and Hunting Expo, January 13-15 at the Woodlands Waterway Marriot, The Woodlands, Texas.

Entries are accepted each year for these prestigious awards. An entrant must be a member of Houston Safari Club. The Hunting Awards include International, Whitetail and Youth Categories! Photo award submissions may be entered into Wildlife, Trophy, Indigenous People, Landscape and Pride of HSC categories. If you are not currently a member, you may join today at houstonsafariclub.org/membership/join/. Award entry forms may be found here houstonsafariclub.org/convention/awards/. Additional information regarding HSC’s annual Convention may be found at houstonsafariclub.org/convention/.

About Houston Safari Club
Houston Safari Club (HSC) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the protection of hunters’ rights. In addition, HSC proudly provides one of the largest scholarship programs of its kind, through its 501(c)(3) charitable arm, the American Conservation and Education Society (ACES). HSC and ACES are independent organizations and are not chapters of or affiliated with any other organization. Visit our website at houstonsafariclub.org, or call 713.623.8844 for more information.

Houston Safari Club recently signed onto a letter to both presidential candidates that covered the Statement of Principles in Support of Public Lands. This letter asked for them to confirm their support for public ownership of public lands and keep nationally owned land from falling into state and private hands.

Sportsmen’s Public Land Support Letter to Mr Trump
Sportsmen’s Public Land Support Letter to Secretary Clinton

Houston, TX – Houston Safari Club (HSC), a leader in education, conservation and hunters’ rights, is pleased to announce the continuation of its partnership with Conservation Visions. HSC’s partnership with Conservation Visions includes support of the Wild Harvest Initiative.

The Wild Harvest Initiative is multi-year program designed by Conservation Visions Inc. to measure and analyze the biomass of wild animal protein harvested by citizens of the United States and Canada, and to assess its nutritional and its economic value. The initiative will also determine the ecological and financial costs of replacing this food through standard agricultural and domestic livestock production.

“The Wild Harvest Initiative will have great relevance for all stakeholders in the conservation community, and for everyone who is concerned about safe, healthy food,” says Shane Mahoney, CEO of Conservation Visions Inc.  “We are excited to have Houston Safari Club join our growing coalition of support for the Initiative, and we are committed to working with our Partners to forge common ground for discussion and public engagement in wildlife conservation issues”.

“HSC is thrilled to continue our partnership with Shane and Conservation Visions. Shane’s foresight to gather and bring this data into the public conscience will hopefully join academia, the non-hunting populace and hunter-conservationists together to better understand the importance of wild, sustainable resources”, states Joe Betar, Executive Director, Houston Safari Club.

About Conservation Visions

Conservation Visions Inc. will educate and inspire the general public and sustainable use community on why conservation matters; promote sustainable use as a conservation mechanism worldwide; reestablish conservation as a social movement by promoting the concept of ‘citizen conservation’; build strong and diverse conservation coalitions by building upon shared ideals; encourage and enable stakeholders to take action for wildlife and human heritage protection; reinvigorate the idea that wildlife belongs to everyone, and ultimately effect positive change for wildlife and humanity.

About Houston Safari Club

Houston Safari Club (HSC) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the protection of hunters’ rights. In addition, HSC proudly provides one of the largest scholarship programs of its kind, through its 501(c)(3) charitable arm, the American Conservation and Education Society (ACES). HSC and ACES are independent organizations and are not chapters of or affiliated with any other organization. Visit our website at houstonsafariclub.org, or call 713.623.8844 for more information.

Houston, TX – Houston Safari Club (HSC) is pleased to announce the recent award of twenty four (24) scholarships as part of its Dan L. Duncan Scholarship awards. The winners were chosen from hundreds of qualified applicants.

These applicants must have a desire to protect and promote the sport of hunting and the principles of conservation. Applicants for these scholarships are undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Wildlife Management and/or Range Management. The ideal candidate must demonstrate academic excellence, leadership qualities and complete a thorough application process including recommendations, transcript reviews, and in some cases, providing thesis information.

Deb Cunningham, Scholarship Committee Chair, states “The HSC Dan L. Duncan Scholarship is the perfect partnership…dedicated, hard-working students with a passion for wildlife and wildlife management related studies, wildlife biologists, ranch management and wildlife conservation, coupled with the idea of a generous Hunter/conservationist, Dan Duncan and like-minded HSC generous sponsor/donors who make their dreams a reality.”

Following a thorough review of all applicants, the Scholarship Selection Committee awarded twenty-four scholarships. HSC, in conjunction with its charitable arm the American Conservation and Education Society (ACES), has awarded scholarships of over $1.75 million dollars.

About Houston Safari Club

Houston Safari Club (HSC) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the protection of hunters’ rights. In addition, HSC proudly provides one of the largest scholarship programs of its kind, through its 501(c)(3) charitable arm, the American Conservation and Education Society (ACES). HSC and ACES are independent organizations and are not chapters of, affiliated with or funded by any other organization. Visit our website at houstonsafariclub.org, or call 713.623.8844 for more information.

Houston, TX – Houston Safari Club (HSC), a leader in education, conservation and hunters’ rights, is proud to announce its continued support of Conservation Force in the form of a $25,000 grant. HSC is one of the founding supporters of Conservation Force, and has provided funding since 1997.

Conservation Force is a charitable foundation dedicated to the conservation of wildlife, wild places and the outdoor way of life. HSC has joined forces with Conservation Force to battle attacks against hunter-conservationists, including the airline ban on the import of legally harvested animals.

John Jackson, Chairman, Conservation Force, states, “Houston Safari Club is one of the top four supporters of Conservation Force and has been from our inception. But HSC is more than that. I am a life member and the members are among our dearest friends. Representing HSC and its exceptional members makes us proud to be hunters and inspires Chrissie and I in all that we do. Thanks to HSC for caring and helping and for being worth fighting for.”

About Conservation Force

Conservation Force is a non-profit, public, charitable organization that serves as one of the leading conservation and advocacy organizations in the world today. With partners worldwide, its exempt purposes are wildlife conservation, education, research and serving the greater public good. For more information see conservationforce.org.

Recently, Houston Safari Club signed onto a wildfire funding and forest management letter to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry committee. The letter further explains key points within the Emergency Wildfire and Forest Management Act of 2016 they support, and those they still have concerns with, specifically in regards to budget and management of Indian forest land.

Wildfire Funding and Forest Management Ltr 2016 SENR