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Your Money At Work

Arizona Deer Association President Don McDowell recaps some of the recent work and projects funded by our members, banquet attendees and raffle participants.

ADA Presents Jamison Conservation Award to Kurt Davis

The Arizona Deer Association (ADA) presented the Jamison Conservation Award to Kurt Davis at their 2022 Fundraising Banquet in Chandler, Arizona.


This award is not given annually, but only when a worthy individual is selected by the ADA Board. The last award was presented in 2015.


The Jamison can be awarded for an individual’s volunteer conservation work, political advocacy for wildlife or wildlife management, or professional management that has benefitted wildlife, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor Avocations.


Kurt Davis has served on the AZ Game & Fish Commission for the last 10 years. During that tenure, he has focused on preserving the Arizona Game and Fish Department, its mission, and with preserving the Commission system itself.


He worked to ensure that the North American Model of Wildlife Management, which has successfully driven this country’s wildlife management programs for more than 100 years, continues to be the guiding force in managing, conserving and insuring wildlife’s future.


His vocation in life has put him in the unique position of being one of the most effective individuals to ever hold the position of Commissioner. He has been there to help educate House and Senate members, counsel Governors and their staff members, coordinate with our federal representatives and maintain close watch over those who would like to see hunting and fishing removed from being legitimate activities which millions of Americans participate in and have enjoyed for the last two centuries.


His focus has always been on these Big Picture issues that wildlife managers, and sportsmen and women face. He wants to keep professionals managing wildlife, not those who would bring about a stop to that by utilizing the ballot box; and he wants to keep hunters and anglers involved in Conservation and the field or on the water.


The Arizona Deer Association thanks Mr. Davis, and his family, for these last 10 years of service and a lifetime of being a hunter, angler, and conservationist. 

Arizona Big Game Super Raffle

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ADA Stance on trail camera rule making

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Land Owner Relations and Habitat Enhancement Program

    Take Charge Against CWD

    Help Protect Arizona's Deer and Elk Herds

    As you can see in the map above, Arizona one of the few states without a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease.  Through 2019, The Arizona Game and Fish Department has tested more than 1,200 samples provided by hunters, taxidermists and game processors.  The Arizona Deer Association, along with many other conservation organizations, supports the Department's efforts to keep CWD out of Arizona.


    To learn more about CWD, this link will take you to an article on HuntingFishing.com.


    To see a list of CWD-related regulations for Arizona and other states, along with a list of recommendations if you are hunting in a known CWD area, download "Know Before You Go" below.

    CWD Documents

    CWD-Know Before You Go (pdf)Download

    ADA to Auction Hualapai Elk Tag

    The Arizona Deer Association is set to offer the 2021 Hualapai Tribe Special Scholarship Elk Tag! Depending on the COVID situation, this coveted tag will be auctioned at an event or online in early 2021. The high bidder can choose any consecutive 16 days, from August 1st – December 31st, 2021 and will have 1 million acres of prime elk habitat to hunt. Meals and lodging are included for the hunter and one guest. This tag also includes the assistance of an experienced tribal guide.


    ADA President Don McDowell says, “ADA is honored to work with the Hualapai Game and Fish Department to auction this special tag, benefiting the Tribal Youth Scholarship Fund. The Hualapai is known for huge Elk and this tag is the pinnacle for any avid Sportsman. This is truly the hunt of a lifetime.”


    There are only two of these special elk tags available each year from the Hualapai Game and Fish Department, where in 2018 the two auction tags resulted in 450” and 433” Bulls! The Hualapai boasts some of the best elk habitat in country and their herds are managed for older/mature bulls.


    For more detailed information and those interested in bidding live or by phone, please contact Jim Lawrence at jim@azdeer.org or Don McDowell at don@shakerattleandtroll.com.

    ADA Supports CWD Awareness Campaign

    The Arizona Deer Association (ADA), founded in 1995, Arizona’s premier Wildlife Conservation Organization for Mule and White Tailed Deer applauds the current efforts of the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) to monitor the CWD outbreak and halt the spread from neighboring states into our deer and elk general populations.


    The current efforts of the AZGFD will be greatly enhanced and improved by the proposed grant for the  media outreach programs to our hunting and general sporting populations to further define facts and state regulations about CWD and the methods of transmission, proper game carcass care, transporting and disposal. Tutorial methods of testing and how the hunting population can assist the department in proper sampling and symptomatic reporting in CWD management practices will be invaluable in gathering scientific data from the field.


    We stand ready to assist the AZGFD in manner we can to help the process of education in the hunting and wildlife community.

    Poachers Prosecuted

    The White Mountain Independent published an extensive article detailing the process that brought two Arizona poachers to justice.  


    "The individuals in this case are thieves, stealing wildlife from all of us. They were motivated by greed, notoriety and personal gain."

    Gene Elms, Law Enforcement Branch Chief.


    Click here to read the full article.

    ADA Supports Northern Arizona Grasslands initiative

    "The Department has demonstrated tremendous success with this RCPP, it only makes sense to extend it and maintain its benefit for wildlife and producers. This Project fits the ADA board’s criteria of benefiting all species of wildlife, not focusing on a single species. If this RCPP is selected for an extension, the ADA will vigorously support providing a minimum $25,000 per year from the revenue generated through the Big Game Special Tag fund over the course of the project’s five years.


    The ADA is proud to be a cooperator in concert with our Mule Deer Foundation and Department counterparts and other partners on this outstanding long term, multi-phased project for the betterment of Northern Arizona."

    Support of Expanded Hunting Opportunities

     Arizona Deer Association Supports Expanded Hunting on National Wildlife Refuges in Arizona


    We at the Arizona Deer Association, located in the State of Arizona, founded in 1995 as Arizona’s premiere wildlife conservation organization, are writing to applaud the efforts of President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of the Department of the Interior David L. Bernhardt to open the Cabeza Prieta, Buenos Aires, Cibola and Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuges located in southern Arizona to recreational hunting opportunities.


    We feel the opening of the noted NWR’s is important to sportsmen-women and families plus the economic impact to Arizona, to have the ability to hunt big game species, other than Big Horn Sheep, to include but not limited to antelope, mule and white tailed deer, mountain lion, coyote, bobcat, badger, ringtail cat, kit and gray fox, spotted skunk, cottontail rabbit, black-tailed jack rabbit, Gambel’s and Mearns quail, mourning, white-winged and Eurasian collared dove, as well as, other various species as identified by the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

    Cabeza Prieta Video

    ADA President Don McDowell talks about the importance of supporting the proposed expanded hunting opportunities on the Cabeza Prieta and other US Fish and Wildlife managed lands in Arizona.

    18A Fuel Reduction SUpport

    In a letter to Arizona Forestry Program Supervisor John Richardson:


    I am writing to you in regards to the Department of Forestry and Fire Management’s 2020 Hazardous Fuels Reduction Grant.   The Arizona Game and Fish Department staff formally presented this project to the Arizona Deer Association (ADA) on August 20th 2019. At the conclusion of their presentation, the motion was made and accepted by the ADA Board of Directors to adopt the Project as an ADA premier habitat enhancement project. 


    This Project fits the ADA board’s criteria of benefiting all species of wildlife, and restoring ecosystem health. Many of the acres being treated through this project will reduce hazardous fuel loads and reduce the wildfire risk to homes, ranches, and the fences and waters that they need to operate. The ADA has reached out to District 4’s Congressman to provide additional support for this project.


    The ADA is proud to be a cooperator in concert with our Mule Deer Foundation and Department counterparts and other partners on this outstanding long term, multi phased projects for the betterment of some 50,000 acres.


    Yours in conservation,


    Don McDowell

    President

    Arizona Deer Association

    heber wild horse territory comments

    Dear U.S. Forest Service, NEPA team specialists for the Heber Wild Horse Territory Management Plan,


    We appreciate the opportunity to submit comments and support the proposed action to develop a Heber Wild Horse Territory (HWHT) Management Plan (Plan). The Plan must ensure the herd is managed to maintain a self-sustaining population of healthy animals within the designated territory, in a thriving natural ecological balance with other uses and the productive capacity of their habitat. This includes achieving the desired conditions to have forage and cover available to prey species and big game species to maintain healthy

    populations, vigorous desirable forage species, functioning riparian habitats and satisfactory soil and watershed conditions.


    However, there are significant issues not fully considered or lacking in the proposed action that may cause social or economic harm and place rural communities, local governments, hunters, outdoor recreationists, grazing permittees, and private land inholdings within the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests at risk. There are

    also issues not considered that may cause harm to localized wildlife and other species. These issues are provided in the following comments, supported by pertinent references or additional information submitted electronically as attachments with this comment letter.

    Complete Heber Wild Horse Territory Comments (pdf)

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