Superintendents: Greg Lamphiear, Karen Nagel
Premium: Purple $2.50; Blue $1.75; Red $1.50; White $1.25
General Information:
Conservation, Wildlife, and Shooting Sports gives 4-H members an opportunity to share their knowledge and field experience. All exhibits must follow all respective state and national laws relating to conservation, wildlife, and shooting sports.
- NO FIREARMS, ITEMS WITH A BLADE (broad heads, knives, saws, etc.) or related items of any other kind, may be exhibited. This applies to actual items, replicated items and item parts. Photos are a suitable substitution for actual items.
- Show What You Did and Learned: Exhibitors must show evidence of their personal field experiences, study or observations that relate to their exhibit. This helps the judge understand what the 4-H’er did and learned in the process that led to the exhibit.
- Proper Credit: Show proper credit by listing the sources of plans or other supporting information used in exhibits.
Whose Exhibit?: The 4-H member’s name, county & age must be on the back or bottom of each display.
Example to attach to your exhibit:
Name: Chris Clover
County: Clover County
Age: 10
Field Experience, Study, or Observations:
I attended a 4-H workshop where we put out a food plot, and then made turkey calls. We played a game about attracting turkeys. Sometimes we acted like a female to draw in a tom turkey. Sometimes we acted like a lost baby turkey to call in a whole flock. I was able to use my turkey call and play the game successfully. While I never turkey hunted in person, I went on-line to research more turkey calls. I hope to turkey hunt someday, and I want to use a box call to hunt fall turkeys.
Credits/Source:
Information was obtained from Nebraska Game & Parks website
- Wildlife and Wildlife Laws: “Animal” or “wildlife” includes wild fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds or mammals. Domestic animal (i.e. domestic livestock or house pets) and insect exhibits are not appropriate for this area. Exhibitors must comply with current state and federal laws. It is illegal to possess threatened, endangered, or protected wildlife, or the feathers, nests, or eggs of non-game birds. These items cannot be part of an exhibit. Game birds and game animals taken legally during an open season may be used.
- Project Materials: Related project booklets include Exploring Your Environment Series, 4-H Shooting Sports, Amphibians, Bird Behavior (EC 59381), Fishing for Adventure Project Manuals, Wildlife Conservation (4-H125), Geology, and Outdoor Adventure. Other resources include: Outdoor Skills: Learning Science in the Outdoors series outdoornebraska.gov/afterschool/ and www.whep.org.
Exhibit Size: a) Board and Poster Exhibits: Mount all board exhibits on 1/4" plywood, Masonite, or similar panel no larger than 24" high by 24" wide. Poster exhibits should be on regular poster sheets, no larger than standard size (22"X28") but half size (22"X14") is recommended. b) All Other Exhibits: Exhibits other than poster/display board should not exceed 48” x 48” and be able to be moved by two people.