President’s Column – $50k-per-state Grants Available
(01/15/21) By Jenifer Wisniewski, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Happy New Year to all! Here’s an exciting new opportunity for everyone this year to apply for a $50,000 grant for your state to do marketing to accomplish R3 of hunters and … Continue reading →
Get Ready to enter the ACI Awards Contest
(01/15/21) By Scott Ball, TBW Editor One of the most popular and successful of ACI programs is the annual awards contest, which recognizes excellence and promotes craft improvement through competition.
Directory Update Time
(01/15/21) By Scott Ball, TBW Editor It’s important to be able to reach out to a fellow ACI’er from another state when the need arises. That’s why we have an online directory, in fact: to make communication with our out-of-state … Continue reading →
8 Reasons Why Your Website Has a High Bounce Rate
(01/15/21) Original blog post by Jos Davies – 12/15/2020 Summary by Scott Ball, TBW Editor Just like she did in November, ACI’s esteemed treasurer, Judy Stokes Weber, recently shared with me a link to an interesting article that is worth passing along … Continue reading →
President’s Column – We didn’t have a perfect vision of 2020
(11/16/20) By Jenifer Wisniewski, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Welp, we couldn’t have seen this year coming, but it has certainly been a fascinating year.
Awards Committee Co-chairs
(11/16/20) By Scott Ball, TBW editor We recently put out the call to recruit an Awards Co-chair to team with new Chair Aaron Meier and conduct the annual ACI Awards Program. It came as no surprise when several of you stepped … Continue reading →
Multistate Grants Update
(11/16/20) As we’ve read in Jenifer’s recent columns, ACI applied for 3 grants totaling over $700,000 through AFWA’s multistate grant program.
Free Software from IHEA-USA
(11/16020) By Alex Baer, COO, IHEA-USA Thanks to a Modern Multistate Conservation Grant to improve national capacity for R3, the International Hunter Education Association (IHEA-USA) has been afforded the opportunity to extend to each state one license for both Slack … Continue reading →
Convert Social Media Followers into Email Subscribers
(11/16/20) Original blog post by Rachael Seda | October 12, 2020 Summary by Scott Ball, TBW Editor ACI’s esteemed treasurer, Judy Stokes Weber, recently shared with me a link to an interesting article that is worth passing along to anyone … Continue reading →
Aldo Leopold: Conservation Hero for Our Times, Worthy Story for Mainstream Film, TV
(11/16/20) By James A. Swan, Ph.D., Nat. Geo. Channel The Association for Conservation Information does a great job getting programs out to help more people participate in outdoor recreation of all kinds. Some of these programs even make it to … Continue reading →
President’s Column – Thanks + Funding Opportunity
(09/15/20) By Jenifer Wisniewski, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Hello Everyone! Well, if you haven’t tuned into the ACI Awards show yet, you are missing out on a fantastic production. Thank you, Blake Podhajsky for the blood, sweat and tears you … Continue reading →
Awards show a success, even if we weren’t there in person
(09/15/20) By Scott Ball, TBW Editor It was a real shame that we couldn’t get together to celebrate the ACI Awards this year, but wasn’t the Livestream show terrific? Congratulations to Awards Chair, Blake Podhajsky; Co-chair Aaron Meier; and all … Continue reading →
Aaron Meier: The Spirit of ACI
(09/15/20) By Scott Ball, TBW Editor At the conclusion of the Awards Livestream, President Jenifer Wisniewski announced her choice for this year’s recipient of the Spirit of ACI Award.
Hiking Through Upstate South Carolina: Our Documentary
(09/15/20) by Sarah Chabaane, SCDNR aquatic education coordinator (Originally published in South Carolina Wild) The idea was simple. Three colleagues, who happen to be female minorities working in the Natural Resources field, would backpack 18 miles, while closely documenting the … Continue reading →
TNC’s Resilient and Connected Landscapes Project
(09/15/20) By Eric Aldrich, The Nature Conservancy To address the daunting challenges facing biodiversity in a changing climate, The Nature Conservancy is using groundbreaking science in a GIS tool to identify a network of lands across the United States with … Continue reading →
President’s Column – We’ll try again next year
(07/15/20) By Jenifer Wisniewski, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency In a normal world, we’d be packing our bags for a trip to New Mexico in a few days. But I don’t need to tell you there’s no such thing as a … Continue reading →
2 tools critical to Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ storytelling
(07/15/20) By Crystal Ross, UDWR Social Media Coordinator In the early days of social media, an old photo or a link was adequate in getting word out about what Utah Division of Wildlife Resources was working on. We used social … Continue reading →
President’s Extra – #IamFairChase
(07/15/20) By Jenifer Wisniewski I wanted to share with you a campaign that the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is conducting. Perhaps your state can do this as well. Here is their constituent invitation:
COVID-19’s effect on The Balance Wheel
(11/16/20) By Scott Ball, TBW Editor There are several reasons why I’m disappointed we couldn’t have an ACI Conference this year. I missed the annual reunion with so many ACI friends – and the opportunity to meet new ones. It … Continue reading →
A Challenge from Our President
(05/15/20) By Jenifer Wisniewski, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Have you started your entries for the ACI awards yet? I challenge you to enter online now!