QDMA Press Release
QDMA Mason-Dixon Branch Earns National Award for Educational Efforts
Bogart, Ga. – Members of the Quality Deer Management Association’s Mason-Dixon Branch, which includes members from Pennsylvania and Maryland, received the 2006 QDMA Educational Branch of the Year award during the QDMA National Convention and Whitetail Expo. The award annually honors a QDMA branch for its focus on educational programs that promote better deer and better deer hunting.
Other finalists for the award included North Carolina’s Cape Fear Branch and Michigan’s Barry County Branch.
“Members of our Mason-Dixon Branch held 19 significant educational events and representing QDMA at more than 15 other booth-related outings,” said Gene Newman, QDMA Director of Branch Development. “They participated in Bass Pro Shops Hunting Classics teaching children how to age deer using jawbones, and they taught Boy Scouts antler-scoring procedures.
“The Mason-Dixon Branch is a wonderful example of QDMA’s focus on education and outreach,” Newman added. “We congratulate them on being Educational Branch of the Year.”
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Membership in QDMA is open to anyone interested in better deer and better deer hunting, and committed to ethical hunting, sound deer management and the preservation of the deer-hunting heritage. To learn more about QDMA and why it is the future of deer hunting, call (800) 209-DEER [(800) 209-3337] or visit www.QDMA.com.
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