Welcome to SFW – “The future of wildlife”™
SFW is a team of 13,000 members spread throughout all 50 states. We are intensely dedicated to the perpetuation of wildlife, and we’re passionate about hunting. Our membership is a collection of sportsmen and women including everything from average hunters and influential celebrities, to wildlife experts, firearm and ammunition manufacturers, taxidermists, guides and outfitters. We all work together to create a future for wildlife and for hunters.
SFW members have raised millions of dollars and volunteered tens of thousands of hours and equipment that is having very real affects on the ground. In Utah, Idaho and Wyoming more than 1,000,000 acres of public land has already been rehabilitated with SFW funds and influence.
Thousands of acres of critical deer and elk winter habitat has been purchased, treated with chaining and burning, and preserved with SFW funds.
Interstate and in-state transplants of buffalo, bighorn sheep, elk, turkey and mule deer are an annual event that provide volunteer opportunity for our members nd more abundant and healthier wildlife for everyone.
- Message from the Founder (link to come)
- Message from the President (link to come)
- SFW Chapters
- Learn more about how your money is spent
Thinking about the future of wildlife? You’ll find it here.
Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife (SFW) is a non-profit wildlife conservation organization of sportsmen members who are interested in preserving and increasing healthy, populations of wildlife throughout the United States and North America.
Healthy and abundant game populations require good habitat, protected winter range, aggressive predator management, a committed game and fish agency, and active federal land managers. All of these issues are controlled by politicians who make laws, set priorities and policies, and determine how sportsmen license dollars are spent. To produce large mature animals, there must also be reasonable control of hunter harvest. SFW works with elected officials at all levels—from the community courthouse to the Whitehouse—to improve and protect quality hunting and fishing on our great public lands and waters.
Byron Bateman, SFW President
SFW’s Executive Board: Byron Bateman, SFW President; Ryan Foutz SFW Vice President, Bryce Pilling, SFW Secretary
SFW Staff: Troy Justensen, Banquets & Fundraising, Mission Fulfillment Board Chairman, Mike Pritchett, SFW Turkey Coordinator; Ryan Benson Legal Council-consultant & Big Game Forever Executive Director
SFW’s Executive Advisory Board: Todd Abelhouzen, Kevin Pritchett, Kurt Wood, Dave Woodhouse, and Scott Czaja CPA, Hanie & Company
Founder & Consultant: Don Peay
SFW Banquets
SFW wildlife conservation banquets (February–May) attract hunters from all walks of life, all eager to contribute to protect and enhance wildlife and hunting opportunity. Most banquet attendees come to the events for the possibility of having his or her name drawn to win a trophy hunt, firearm or hunting gear. Others may bid on one of dozens of premium limited entry deer, elk, moose or other big game tags up for live auction during the events. Most of the money raised at local SFW banquets funds wildlife projects in the same region where the money is raised.
