Deer Hunters of Idaho Projects

Ongoing Projects: 

• Yearly bitterbrush planting in southwestern Idaho, supporting Bureau of Land Management and Idaho Fish & Game. (Ongoing)

• Volunteer support for wildlife supplemental feeding during hard winters. (Ongoing)

• Annual wildlife benefits auction and banquet for deer habitat improvement and other projects. (Ongoing)

Past Projects:

• Wildlife enclosure repairs and maintenance of fences along riparian zones and removal of willows from big game watering holes. (Various years).

• Purchased .22 cal rifles for youth hunter education program. (2003)

• Blacks Creek (private land) shooting area cleanup and trash pickup.  (1994,  1998, and 2002)

• Foothills fire restoration donation for triple matching funds plus volunteer services to replant habitat lost in the fires. (1997 & 1998).

• Boise Front fire restoration donation for habitat restoration north of Boise. (1997)

• Garden Valley Rabbit Brush seedlings shared half the cost of local seedlings with Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for replanting native habitat in Garden Valley. (1997)

• Purchased feeding troughs for supplemental feeding of wildlife (primarily Elk) in the Stanley Basin. (1997)

• Donations for Needy Family Christmas.

• Sportsmans Heritage Defense fund donation.

• Purchased signs for open gate, close gate and donated them to ranchers in Southwestern Idaho to enhance landowner, sportsmen relations.

• Purchased deer radio collars and helped catch and collar fawns in Southwestern Idaho for mule deer/predator mortality study. (1998)

• Instrumental in helping Idaho Wildlife Federation pass increased penalties for flagrant poaching violations.

• Funded majority of expense of bus transportation for volunteers planting bitterbrush. (Ongoing)

• Deer capture and collar study, Lucky Peak Reservoir, volunteer support and funding to help buy deer collars. (2001).

• Funded majority of cost of bus transportation for volunteers planting bitterbrush. (Various years).

• Fertilizer stakes for Garden Valley Bitterbrush comparison study.

• Donated $3000.00 to Idaho Hunter Education for initial funding (matching funds) for a mobile shooting range. (2004)

• Donated $1500.00 towards the purchase of a handicap hunting device for Idaho Ravens Youth organization

• Donated 10 fawn collars to the Idaho Fish & Game for a fawn mortality study in Garden Valley

• Deer Hunters of Idaho in conjunction with Idaho Ravens Youth and Eastmans Journal are sponsoring 30 subscriptions to Eastmans Journal to be sent to selected local armed forces individuals that have just been deployed to Iraq (2005)