Spartan Gunner
FNG
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2016
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Getting young people out in the field hunting is one of the most important things that we hunters can do to preserve our heritage, traditions, and populations of game.
I am thankful to have the opportunity to teach hunter education on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. In my capacity as a school teacher, we began an Alaska Outdoor Education course at Nikiski Middle High School in 2013. This course provides an excellent avenue to dive deep into outdoor skills like land navigation, wilderness trip planning, hunter's safety and much more. We are able to take at least one group out on a big game hunt each year.
As a capstone experience, students from Nikiski's Outdoor Explorations class, in partnership with Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Safari Club International and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, participate in an educational moose hunt. This hunt program is designed to put the kids in control of the hunt as much as possible - from field to freezer. Students are able to use what they learn in the Alaska Outdoor Explorations course to plan out a gear list, plan tactics to use while hunting and consider what types of meat products they would like to make from the moose. The only thing that the students can't do is shoot the moose.
This year we were fortunate to have the New York Times join us on the educational moose hunt and tell our story. The link to the story is in blue below.
Alaska Students Moose Hunting
I am thankful to have the opportunity to teach hunter education on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. In my capacity as a school teacher, we began an Alaska Outdoor Education course at Nikiski Middle High School in 2013. This course provides an excellent avenue to dive deep into outdoor skills like land navigation, wilderness trip planning, hunter's safety and much more. We are able to take at least one group out on a big game hunt each year.
As a capstone experience, students from Nikiski's Outdoor Explorations class, in partnership with Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Chapter of Safari Club International and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, participate in an educational moose hunt. This hunt program is designed to put the kids in control of the hunt as much as possible - from field to freezer. Students are able to use what they learn in the Alaska Outdoor Explorations course to plan out a gear list, plan tactics to use while hunting and consider what types of meat products they would like to make from the moose. The only thing that the students can't do is shoot the moose.
This year we were fortunate to have the New York Times join us on the educational moose hunt and tell our story. The link to the story is in blue below.
Alaska Students Moose Hunting
. Where do these people come from? I didn’t read them all, just scanned the first few. Other than the first comment, the next few were decent. I’m sure there’s some doozies in there though!
