September

SEPTEMBER 2010 - Outdoor Calendar

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1: Dove season opens. Consult the hunting guide for limits dates for the southwest zone.

4-5: Oklahoma Free Hunting days. For Oklahoma residents, a hunting license and HIP permit are not required.

6: Holiday - State Offices Closed.

7: The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Regular Commission Meeting. Meetings are held monthly at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Building (auditorium), 1801 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City, OK at 9:00 am.

9-10: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Wildlife Society and Bollenbach Wildlife Symposium at the Stillwater Plaza Hotel (corner of Perkins Road and McElroy, Stillwater). The state meeting will coincide with a patch burning workshop on the morning of September 9th. Please attend if you are able. The meeting sessions will include invited speakers, a student paper competition, and a fund-raising raffle for the Chapter at this meeting. If you have ideas or items you would like donate, please contact Russell Stevens at rlstevens@noble.org. For more information or for registration form contact Dwayne Elmore at (405) 744-9636.

11: Oklahoma Outdoor Outreach Foundation Youth Trap Shoot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Shoot will be held at Tri-City Gun Club Norman Ok. Participants must provide their own shotgun. Targets and ammunition will be provided as well as lunch. For further information e-mail lowkar@att.net Event sponsored by The National Rifle Association.

11: The Tulsa Metro Women in the Outdoors event Camp Okiwanee, west of Sapulpa, Ok. This event is for women who are 14 or older. WITO is designed to let ladies try hands on outdoors skills, taught by experts, in an friendly environment. We have 24 classes to choose from. This is a one day event. Classes start at 8:00am and end at 7:00 pm. We have overnight lodging for those Ladies who have to travel. You can download an registration by going to womenintheoutdoors.org , click on events. Or contact Pattie Bing at (918) 688-8097 or pjbing1@juno.com.

11-20: Special resident Canada goose season.

11-26: September Teal season

11: Sooner Retriever Club Training day. For more information contact Bill Blochowiak at labske@aol.com or
(405) 279-1288.

11: The Oklahoma Chapter of North American Versatile Hunting Dogs will have a training day starting at 8:00am. Check our website for location and a map at www.OKNAVHDA.com under the Training Days tab. If you have any questions, contact Mike Byer at (405) 406-1956.

16: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation will conduct a White-Tailed Deer Management Workshop at the Bruton Seminar Center within the Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Participation is limited to the first 45 registrants. Participants can preregister for the course at http://www.noble.org/WebApps/Events/EventPages/AgEvents.aspx?CurrentOnly=1

17 & 18: Third Annual Oklahoma Wildlife Management Association Legislative Dove Hunt at the Quartz Mountain Resort and Lodge in Lone Wolf, OK, just north of Altus, OK. For more information contact Adam Winters at (580) 471-8264 or http://www.ok-wildlife.com.

18: The Oklahoma Fur Bearers Alliance will hold its fall convention at the Okmulgee Fairgrounds in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. Doors open at 8 a.m. and the event is free and open to the public. For more information contact John Weygandt at (918) 645-5667.

18: Duck blind drawing for waterfowl hunting blinds on Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation Reservoirs. Registration for Ft. Gibson Drawing begins at 7 a.m., for Eufaula Lake at 9:30 a.m. and Webbers Falls at 12 p.m.

21: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation will conduct a White-Tailed Deer Management Workshop at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in McAlester from 10:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Preregistration is required and participation is limited to the first 45 registrants. Participants cannot bring weapons, cameras or matches onto the property. Participants can preregister for the course at http://www.noble.org/WebApps/Events/EventPages/AgEvents.aspx?CurrentOnly=1

23: The Oklahoma City Ducks Unlimited Chapter is having a Waterfowl Hunters Party at the Chesapeake Boat House, 725 S. Lincoln , (around the corner from the Bass Pro Shop). We will start at 6 p.m. and be finished by 8:30 p.m. Prizes, drawings (over 70 boxes of decoys), food, beer, soft drinks, a silent auction and a one year membership to Ducks Unlimited for only $25.00. Greenwings, youngsters under 18, are $15.00 each. Also, discounted tickets for our November Banquet at the Western Heritage Museum will be on sale at the Waterfowl Hunters Party. For more information contact Dennis Weaver at (405) 833-0621.

25-26: Oklahoma Wildlife Expo at the Lazy E Arena.

24: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation standardized employment exam at Rose State College. Testing begins at 10 a.m. No one will be admitted after that time. A photo ID is required for admission. For more information click here.

30: Win a Hunting or Fishing Trip from The Oklahoma Station Chapter of SCI. For only the months of June through September, SCI’s Oklahoma Station Chapter (“SCI/OSC”) is running a very special program for new and existing members a give-away of six trips: Oklahoma waterfowl hunting, Kansas pheasant hunting, Alaska fishing (two trips), Namibia hunting, and Macedonia hunting. The trips range in value from $1,200 to $10,000, and SCI/OSC intends to give away all six...over $25,000 worth in all.
Complete details are found in the SCI-Oklahoma website, http://oklahomastationsci.org/. There, click on the link, “Special-Incentive Program -- $25,000 Giveaway (June-Sept, 2010)”.

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