We are an all-volunteer, 501 (c) (3) non-profit group promoting effective conservation, supporting hunting ethics and good sportsmanship, advocating for healthy habitat and improving and increasing outdoor recreation opportunities, especially hunting and fishing.
Wenatchee
Sportsmen's
Association
Rebuilding Chelan Butte Wildlife Feeders after 2024 Wildfire
Ron Russ Photo
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Swakane Canyon Deer Poaching Incident
WDFW Police are seeking any information regarding the poaching of two mule deer does, which were shot, killed, and left for waste at the public shooting range in Swakane Canyon located north of Wenatchee. The incident occurred earlier this month on or near Tuesday February 4, 2025.
We ask that anyone who has any information surrounding this incident to call us, WDFW Enforcement at 877-933-9847, online, or text or send photos to WDFWTIP at TIP411 (847411).
Those who provide information leading to an arrest may be eligible for a cash reward or bonus points for special permit hunting opportunities.
Save the Date
Our Annual Fundraising
Banquet is the evening of
Saturday March 29, 2025
To ensure the success of this event, and to share the workload, we urgently need your assistance with preparations for the banquet. We would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation of cash, goods, or services to be raffled or auctioned at our annual fundraising dinner. Any contribution, no matter the size, will help us continue our important work. Please contact us to help or donate at: info@wenatcheesportsmensassociation.org. Thank you for your support!
Volunteer Opportunities
Help Survey Sage or Sharp-Tail Grouse
When: Mornings, February through May
Where: Douglas County
I am collecting interest in helping with searching for Sage Grouse and Sharp-Tail Grouse through roadside surveys. These will be done 45 minutes before sunrise until 30-90 minutes after sunrise. Volunteers will stop on the roadside at half mile intervals listening and looking for grouse.
Volunteers will need their own transportation, binoculars, decent to good hearing, and able to download and operate Avenza Maps on their own phone.
If interested, contact me for more details. Availability to help is limited and number of hours is dependent on different factors.
Both grouse are endangered in Washington State. These surveys will help identify new or returning mating locations known as “Leks.” This information is vital to supporting these species.
Support getting youth outdoors by volunteering with the Wild Washington Outdoor Classroom at Beebe Springs!
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Wild Washington Outdoor Classroom will welcome more than 800 elementary students from Chelan and Douglas counties to Beebe Springs Natural Area. Students will explore biodiversity and cultural diversity as they rotate through stations led by local practitioners. We will host 8 days of the outdoor school with around 100 students in attendance each day.
Volunteer support may include many different activities such as setup and tear down, handing out educational materials, taking photos, monitoring radios, and assisting with educational stations.
The outdoor school will run May 6-9 and May 13-16. Volunteers can sign up for one or multiple days. Mondays will be setup only and the remaining days will be with students on site. Volunteers will be assigned to activities based on event needs and volunteer skills and interest. Register in CERVIS using this link:
https://cerv.is/0052x2037
Please reach out to Lindsay.Walker@dfw.wa.gov with any questions.
Master Hunter Volunteer Opportunities
Posted 2_2_2025
Region 2 Master Hunter Opportunities/ Open to everyone-- You do not have to be a Master Hunter or Candidate Master Hunter
July 9, 2024
Keeping the Hunting Heritage Alive
What’s included:
· · Help Bios with Waterfowl Activities in Grant/Adams Counties
· Help Bios with Pygmy Rabbits
· How to Become a Hunter Education Instructor
Continue reading for more information…
Help Bios with Waterfowl Activities in Grant/Adams Counties
Ongoing Opportunity
Assisting District Biologists and Waterfowl Section staff in waterfowl and migratory game bird monitoring activities including: banding, surveys, and other monitoring activities within District 5 (Grant and Adams counties). This is an ongoing activity so register if you are interested to be notified as opportunities open.
Help Bios with Pygmy Rabbits
Working alongside WDFW biologists and technicians in the shrubsteppe habitat of northcentral Washington, volunteers will assist with implementing activities to establish two additional wild populations of the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. Volunteers will assist with capturing juvenile rabbits from semi-captive breeding enclosures or from an existing wild population and translocating them to acclimation pens at release sites in the wild. Assistance is also needed for maintaining and relocating captive breeding and acclimation pen infrastructure.
During capture efforts, we additionally collect biological samples for genetic monitoring and disease/health research.
Typically, reintroduction activities occur from early March through early October.
How to Become a Hunter Education Instructor
Many Master Hunters are also Hunter Education Instructors. You may have considered this in the past, but either figure the process was too complicated to get certified or the commitment too large. NOT TRUE.
Certification Process:
1. Complete two hour online best teaching practices course.
2. Attend a three hour Pre-Service Training that covers best teaching practices in hunter education, important policies, and resources for instructors.
3. Assist with a hunter education class to complete a mentoring checklist.
4. Pass a background check (just like with Master Hunter).
To maintain your certification:
· Assist with one class each year. That’s it.
Hunter Education teams could use your skills and knowledge in safe, legal, and ethical hunting and firearm handling. This can take many forms and can be as simple as assisting with one class session which doesn’t always means having to teach in front of a group, but instead coach students. Contact Nick to learn all the ways you can assist!
Nick Montanari, Hunter Education & Volunteer Coordinator
(509) 449-9975; Nicholas.montanari@dfw.wa.gov
About
Who We Are
The Wenatchee Sportsmen’s Association (WSA) was founded in 1928 and incorporated in 1949. WSA is a nonprofit organization of conservation minded sportsmen who are dedicated to the preservation, enhancement and acquisition of wildlife habitat and to the conservation and responsible management of fish and wildlife in their natural habitats. WSA strives to ensure that outdoor recreation, fishing and hunting in our area will be preserved and enhanced for current and future generations. We sponsor and support youth programs to introduce youth to outdoor recreation, fishing and hunting.
WSA invites all interested people to become members. You need not be an outdoor recreationist, hunter, fisher, wildlife viewer. to join and participate in our activities. All board meetings and general meetings are open to the public. Attend a meeting, participate in a work project and you may develop lifelong friendships while participating in activities that benefit wildlife, wildlife habitat or youth. Anyone interested in volunteering, contributing monetary donations or donations of goods/materials contact us for information.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recognized the Wenatchee Sportsman’s Association as it's Organization of the Year in 2019
City of Rock Island-Rock Island Community Food Bank and WSA sponsored Kids Fishing Day at the Pit Pond
A Happy Angler at the Pit Pond in Rock Island
WSA Volunteers Clean Up Homeless Camp at Lily Lake 2023
WSA Volunteers fill feeders with grain for wintering wildlife
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WSA and many local groups sponsor Youth Hunting and Fishing Day 2019
Pruning brush from water sources in Navarre Coulee (spring 2024). Volunteer for our work parties. Come out and help and feel good about giving back when you are done ! Work will usually qualify for Master Hunter volunteer hours.
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Denny Snyder and his daughter Hope, staff the WSA 2024 Salmon Festival booth.
WSA volunteers rebuild one of six wildlife feeders destroyed in 2024 Chelan Butte wildfire.
There are forty-five feeders that have been built and are maintained by WSA for wildlife on the Quilomene, Colockum and Chelan Wildlife Areas to supplement native forage during winter. An example of the feeders used are depicted above - the feeder on the right is an “A-Frame” type feeder and the feeder on the left is a “Deer Friendly Feeder.” The A-Frame is designed for easier access for filling and is designed to prevent deer and elk from accessing the grain. Both feeders contain barrels having a hole in the bottom and resting on a feed tray. The barrels are filled with wheat, corn or a combination of wheat and corn depending upon the type of birds in the vicinity that are being fed during the winter. They are filled with grain supplied by WDFW or purchased by WSA in the late fall so that the birds have access to food when the ground is covered with snow. Birds being fed are predominately quail, chukars, Hungarian partridge, and turkeys.
Over one hundred water sources have been developed and are maintained by the WSA for wildlife use on the Quilomene, Colockum and Chelan Wildlife Areas. The water sources vary from old stock tanks that were used by pioneer farmers on the WDFW lands, to modern stock tanks and vinyl half barrels inserted in the ground. There are tanks connected to natural springs located in the vicinity by poly pipe – sometimes the springs are four to five hundred yards away. Often, the natural springs by themselves are too small, located in inaccessible vegetation, or too deep underground to provide an adequate water source for animals. In early spring, the water sources are checked to confirm that they are properly functioning. Oftentimes, lines get blocked by silt, broken from freezing, or chewed by coyotes and have to be repaired.
Where natural springs are nonexistent, guzzlers are used to capture rain and snow melt. Two of the many guzzlers used are depicted in the bottom two pictures. The tank on the left depicts one surrounded by natural vegetation and the one on the right is one rebuilt after it was burned in the 2013 Colockum wildfire. The guzzlers are composed of a five hundred-gallon, fiberglass tank buried in the ground with two collector shields to capture snow melt or rain to fill the tank. There is a ramp that descends into the tank so small animals can climb out of the water.
Get Involved --Fish, Wildlife, Habitat and our youth
need you
We are having our fundraising banquet dinner on March 29. Come out for a fine dinner, raffles and auctions and see all your friends. This is our primary fundraiser, so come out and support fish, wildlife their habitat and ecological functions. Your membership is included in your banquet ticket. Of course, if you can not make it to the banquet, we welcome new members any time. If you want to receive our newsletter and keep abreast of volunteer opportunities, meeting and meeting programs, please join us. Donations to support our mission are welCome ocome.
