Community Service Offerings 

Multiple service programs are offered by members of our Federation and/or member sportsmans clubs.  For an overview, of our service activities read this page; for details on each event, see the links in the submenu.

The Federation sponsors two service projects each year: the spring veterans fishing program for long term residents of the local VA hospital, held in April and May each year, and June's Youth Field Day - a hands-on introduction into multiple aspects of the outdoor sports, from archery to trap shooting.

Multiple Federation members are Hunter Trapper Education (HTE) instructors for the PA Game Commission, and present multiple events county wide from March through September.

The Doc Fritchey Chapter of Trout Unlimited has multiple service projects each year, focusing on preventing stream bank erosion and improving water quality.  While many of those projects are of a fixed duration, one stands out for its continuity.

For roughly 30 years, chapter volunteers have been shoveling crushed limestone in two diversion wells on Rausch Creek in Lebanon County, to help neutralize mine acid drainage. The southeastern Pennsylvania creek flows into the Stony Creek, a good trout stream. 

In addition, they sponsor two students each year in the Youth River Conservation and Fly Fishing School.  (See the link in the submenu for an enrollment form.)

The Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Conservation Club hosts an outdoors weekend each May, with trout fisj=hing and turkey hunting as featured events.

The PA Trappers Association (PTA) District 11 hosts a Trappers Training School each August.

And the Susquehannock Fly Fishers hosts the Life Skills classes of the county's six school districts to a day of trout fishing each May.