Idaho Fish & Wildlife Foundation

Executive Committee

  Executive Director:
  Gayle Valentine
  Boise

  President:
  Gary N. Mumford
  Soda Springs

  1st Vice President:
  Suzanne Sawyer
  Sandpoint

  2nd Vice President:
  Gary Rose
  Victor

  Secretary:
  Phyllis Kochert
  Gooding

  Treasurer:
  Stephen M. Barton
  Boise

  Past President:
  Gail Siemen
  Pocatello

  Board of Directors

  John A.K. Barker
  Lewiston

John E. Burns
Carmen (Ex-officio)

Irwin Caufield
Lewiston

Merlyn Clark
Boise

Daniel S. Deagle, CPA
Buhl/Twin Falls

Sandy Emerson
Coeur d'Alene

Floyd Harvey
Lewiston

Charles Hervey
Boise

Jim Mathias
Blackfoot

Patrick J. Mills
Boise

Pam Morris
Ketchum

Hadley Roberts
Salmon

Wesley G. Rose, O.D.
Jerome

William Stamps
Hayden

Steve Huffaker
Boise (ex-officio)

Mission: To protect and sustain Idaho's fishing, hunting and wildlife heritage for present and future generations.

In support of this mission, the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Inc. is committed to bringing together citizens, businesses, industry, government, conservation and environmental groups and organizations to:

promote conservation education about fishing, hunting, habitat & wildlife management
support projects dedicated to acquiring, preserving and managing fish and wildlife habitat
create opportunities to experience Idaho's fish and wildlife resources

"Promote, Educate, Protect"

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What is the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation?
Sometimes people have great ideas but need help getting the money to accomplish them. This can be especially true when those ideas revolve around fish and wildlife. A river of red tape exists in many overlapping bureaucratic jurisdictions and laws surrounding various funding sources in the public and private sectors. The Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation (IFWF) was created to help people cross that river and get on with those important projects.

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources: fish, wildlife and habitat. Among its goals are habitat conservation and restoration, public education and community/grassroots organization, and funding of resource projects. It meets these goals by forging partnerships between the public and private sectors and by supporting conservation activities that inform and educate the general public.

Headquartered in Boise, the Foundation was established in September 1990. Interest in forming the Foundation came from several different needs, beginning with the Morrison Knudsen Nature Center. An entity was needed to facilitate this and similar large-scale public/private projects. In this instance, parts of the project (such as building the Visitors Center by high school students) could not effectively happen through a state agency, and because funding sources (such as the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust) could give to nonprofits, but not to government agencies.

Today, the Foundation serves as a fund-raising entity that taps new and additional sources of income and support for the state's wildlife and associated educational programs that are typically under-funded or without a reliable annual source of income. It seeks grants, plans special events and is developing a major donor program as well as exploring other funding options. It also responds to frequent requests from community organizations for program coordination and organizing assistance.

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Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation
PO Box 2254
Boise, ID 83701-2254
Phone: 208/334-2648
Fax: 208/334-2148
Email: lcompton@idfg.state.id.us