Current Projects
Forever Wild Awards2017
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Recognizing the impact of participation in shooting sports during Skyler's middle school years, the group wishes to recognize junior champion at the state culminating shooting events like the Wyoming State Youth Hunter Challenge in Upton and to the highest ranking intermediate in Outdoor Skills at the 4-H State Shoot who participated in two of the following: muzzleloading, archery, and .22 rifle. Recipients of the Forever Wild Award will receive a special plaque and either a guided hunt or monetary award.
Specify that your gift is for this award when you donate and you can help us get young shooters in the hills with a professional guide to begin a lifetime of ethical hunting.
Seat Belt Initiative
Skyler would still be guiding hunts, trapping, and helping with youth shooting programs today if he would have just buckled his seat belt as he checked his traps on that Saturday. We don't want any other mothers to be left waiting for their sons to come home from the hills because they didn't buckle up. We want to attend every state culminating event to share Skyler's story and hand out postcards reminding kids to buckle up.
History Day Awards
The Forever Wild Historical Award is for the entry that best reflects the mission of its sponsoring organization, the Skyler Gabel Group (see http://www.skylergabelgroup.com/about.html). Skyler, a young hunting guide, was a five time Wyoming Historical Society Young Historian who was as passionate about gathering oral history and archived stories about his home state as he was about harvesting game along the Absaroka Mountain Range.
Recent News
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Our second Forever Wild Award Recipient is 13 year old Libby Logan of Guernsey. Our first award winner, Eli Jones, passed the championship torch by awarding her the prize. She was the junior champion in a close match of 8 events at the Wyoming State Youth Hunter Challenge held in Upton on June 10th. The kids competed in 8 different events in one day - .22 rifle, muzzleloading, 5 stand shotgun, archery, orienteering, wildlife identification and both a written and field test. We saw outstanding shooting and sportsmanship and incredibly close competition for the first place Jr. Prize. Congratulations Logan!
We were also able to give an award at the 2017 Wyoming State 4-H Shoot. This intermediate is the highest placing Outdoor Skills winner who also competed in muzzleloader, archery, and .22 rifle. Congratulations to 12 year old Lexi Overfield of Thermopolis. |
Past News: On December 16th in 10 below weather our first Forever Wild winner set out from Ten Sleep to hunt the Big Horns with our guide, Randy Smith of Wapiti Ridge Outfitters, and bagged his first elk! She was beautiful and he took her down with one shot!