Wildlife Fines Help Shooting Ranges

Mon., Jan. 1, 2001

From Staff

Some of the shooting ranges around the state are upgrading their facilities with money taken from wildlife violation fines.

The Fish and Game hunter education program receives the first $100,000 in fines paid by wildlife law violators each year. Of that amount, $60,000 goes to improvements in shooting ranges with hunter education students intended as the primary beneficiaries.

Both firearm and archery ranges receive money.

In the fiscal year 2000, $16,000 went to the Pocatello Field Archers, $4,300 to the Quicksilver 4-H Shooting Sports in Blackfoot and $11,130 to the Idaho Hunter Education Association/Upper Snake Chapter.

For this fiscal year, $25,382 will go to the Coeur d’Alene Rifle & Pistol Club, $24,000 to the EE-DA-HOW Longrifles Inc. in Boise, $18,000 to the Pocatello Field Archers and $6,400 to Rexburg’s Upper Snake Bowmen.

The clubs and ranges match funding from Fish and Game with labor, equipment and materials.

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