Region 7 Firearm and Bow Hunter Safety and Education Program

The summary for the Region 7 Firearm and Bow Hunter Safety and Education Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Fish and Wildlife Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Region 7 Firearm and Bow Hunter Safety and Education Program: I. Funding Opportunity Description A. States may use the funds apportioned to them under Section 10 to: 1. Enhance programs for hunter education, hunter development, and firearm and archery safety. Hunter-development programs introduce individuals to and recruit them to take part in hunting, bow hunting, target shooting, or archery. 2. Enhance interstate coordination of hunter-education and firearm- and archery- range programs. 3. Enhance programs for education, safety, or development of bow hunters and archers. 4. Enhance construction and development of firearm and archery ranges. 5. Update safety features of firearm and archery ranges. B. Section 10 funds supplement, not replace Section 4(c) Hunter Education funds, thereby enhancing a States hunter education and safety program. The following are some examples of eligible activities: 1. Training participants in the safe and proficient use of hunting equipment, hunter responsibility, principles of wildlife management, wildlife identification, and firearms handling; 2. Constructing facilities, such as classrooms, shooting ranges, and other support facilities needed for instruction purposes; 3. Gathering information to help develop, implement, and evaluate hunter education and safety grants; 4. Providing training in trapper education as it relates to safety, responsibility, humane trapping methods, and avoidance of nontarget species, and development of trapping skills; and 5. Communicating information about WSFR grant funded hunter education and recreational shooting sports activities.