Continuing Legal Education Opportunity at 41st Annual SCI Convention
Safari Club International 12.03.12
SCI attorneys, joined by experts from federal, state and private practice, will offer SCI’s sixth annual Wildlife Law Continuing Legal Education Course at the 41st Annual Safari Club International Hunters’ Convention in Reno, Nevada.
The four-hour course for lawyers, co-sponsored by the State Bar of Nevada, will feature presentations on current domestic and international wildlife, conservation, hunting, firearms and importation issues. For the second year in a row, SCI’s CLE course will include one hour of ethics instruction.
The course is open to members of SCI and non-members. The registration fee is $199.00. The course will run from 1:00 P.M. to 5:15 P.M. on Friday, January 25th and will provide 4.0 hours of CLE credit, including 1.0 hours of ethics credit to attendees. Registration is open through the Nevada State Bar’s CLE website. If you have any questions, please contact Anna Seidman, SCI Director of Litigation, 202-543-8733 or aseidman@safariclub.org.
To learn more about the 41st Annual Hunters’ Convention visit www.ShowSCI.org. Register by December 9, 2012 to take advantage of any advance ticket/registration early bird special rates! Tickets are being sold faster than any show in SCI history.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
