The Northwest Chapter Safari Club International

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www.scinw.com
Chapter Accomplishments!!
C ongratulations to Mike Skinner for winning SCI chapter website of the year!! Mike Skinner goes above
and beyond his duty as our website designer and maintainer. He is always looking for member participation
to contribute pictures and stories so he can keep it updated weekly (often daily!). Congratulations on a job
well done. Mike will be presented his award at the February Las Vegas Convention.
ur very own Gary Tennison is Regional Representative of the Year. Despite all of Gary’s many jobs for
O SCI, he still dedicates valuable time to our Northwest Chapter. We are very grateful of Gary’s commit‐
ment to us and congratulate him on being Regional Rep of the Year!!
O ur government affairs director, Mark Pidgeon, has been appointed to the (GMAC) Game Management
Advisory Council. Mark has spent countless hours working for SCI in an endeavor to update the Washington
Wolf Plan. Please read his article: Wolf Plan Update and Legislative News. Our chapter is proud to have Mark
Pidgeon and we appreciate all of his hard work and dedication!
National News
�� Safari Club International’s (SCI) 40 th Annual Hunters’ Convention, taking place February 1-4 th , 2012, is on
pace to be the most successful Convention in the history of the organization. SCI member registrations are 20%
ahead of 2011’s convention to date and SCI will be bringing 13% more exhibitors than in any other year. The
total convention exhibit hall is over 50% larger than in 2011, offering over one million square feet of the
world’s most spectacular hunts, finest guns and greatest taxidermy.
�� Since 2010, SCI has been involved in defending against a case brought by In Defense of Animals (“IDOA”) to
challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s gather of about 1,800 wild horses and burros in the Twin Peaks
Horse Management Area in northeast California/northwest Nevada. IDOA’s preliminary attempt to halt the
gather failed and the BLM successfully gathered the horses. Now, SCI is fighting IDOA’s efforts to have the
gather declared illegal and the gathered horses returned to the range. On December 8, 2011, SCI filed a substantive
brief in defense of the gather. SCI will file another brief in late January and attend a court hearing in
Sacramento on February 23, 2012.
�� December 5 th marked the start of New Jersey’s black bear hunting season. As they promised, anti-hunting organizations
within the state held protests at various game and fish check stations, but it appears that the protests
involved only a handful of people. SCI went on the record on Fox News to fight for sportsmen and women,
hunting and the conservation of New Jersey’s wildlife.