NWTF?

[TPM]

Recently our club ran an NWTF fundraiser banquet and raised a substantial amount of money for the Federation. I know there are a number of these banquets held in Ontario every year and though I've never been to one I was just curious where all this money raised goes. I know it helped finance the trap and transfer program for year but I believe that is no longer running. Are there any other local projects the NWTF helps fund? Couldn't find much on their website but I'm sure we have some NWTF members here who could help shed some light on this.

[Goose smasher]

South Carolina I believe. I don't know the exact number of banquets held in Ontario every year but I do know that only a small portion comes back to this province. Once a year the nwtf releases the info on how much was spent that year in which state/province and what the combined past totals spent in each region are. In 2011 $12300 superfund dollars were spent in Ontario and the current all time total is $642922. This is on page 104 of the may.june issue of turkey country which is the nwtf's magazine.The super fund money is spent in any region where the nwtf is doing work or feels some work needs to be done and not just in the area where the money was raised. Other regions money helped to pay for our trap and transfer projects too.

Goose smasher

[GBuck]

what is an RD?

is a better solution simply managing the habitat privately by buying marginal land and improving it for wild turkeys and other animals?

[tom gobble]

There is a reason why in the USA they have millions of turkeys and Ontario we have been at 70,000 to a 100,000 population for a long time now its because they get all the funds. I know its warmer there but they have yotes and other things that eat turkey's and there population is over populated and we are just managing what we have and not populating more. I think its time for Ontario to get a piece of the pie once in a bit, to start making Ontario what it once was.... Just my two cents.

[reedsducks]

NWTF should throw their support behind the ALUS program.....then again that would take money away from the Turkey Taj mahal they built down in South Carolina. They don't fight for hunters rights up here.

[MikePal]

I read thru their organizations prospective/mandate when I first took my Turkey course some 15 yrs ago...sounded fishy back then so I never gave them a red cent and never attended any of the NWTF functions..it just never made sense for Hunters here.

Some guys just like to join clubs and be part of an identifiable group, so they unwittingly drop money into these types of things, nothing wrong with it , really, if you have fun and enjoy the camaraderie with fellow members.

[Iceslayer]

Kuddos to OntGobbler.

[rick_iles]

OntGobbler is right on the money !!! I was a founding member of the Southwestern Ontario Longbeards chapter. We worked our arses off, putting the banquets together. I also was involved with the trap and transfer, spending hours trapping birds. When it came time to try and get some of the money back for projects here, it was like pulling teeth. I finally got fed up and told the NWTF to stuff it. I'm not even a member anymore. I got tired of sending all our dollars to Edgefield !!! I carved a scene into a moose antler, of a gobbler and a couple of hens. I was basically commissioned by them to do the carving, and they would raffle it off as part of the core package. After some 100 hrs work, they would not even come up with some cash for my work. I still have the carving !!! I'll not send one more dollar to Edgefield and the NWTF.

[trimmer21]

Not to hijack this thread,but,after researching exactly what has already been cited here,this is the main reason I take ALL these organisations with a huge grain of salt. My pet peeve currently is with QDMA. It appears that most of these organisations exist only as revenue generators. There's only one that I've found that actually "walks the walk" and I don't mind saying,either,that it's Ducks Unlimited. Most of the ones I've looked into to possibly support over the last few years are very dubious,indeed. I recommend excerting considerable due diligence.

[reedsducks]

Due diligence is the key. Delta Waterfowl's chapters get 25% of there events profits for conservation and hunting promotion efforts. Their Canadian office is in a strip mall...I like that!!