About Us

The Inland Northwest Wildlife Council is an affiliated member of the National Wildlife Federation and the Washington Wildlife Federation. The INWC has been the recipient of the Stevenson Award seven times for being the outstanding wildlife organization. This organization has been active since 1951 and is 400 plus families strong. The INWC projects have been massive, they have been small and hailed as innovative. The focus and success of our efforts is rooted in volunteerism. In a 12-month period our volunteer force puts in over 7,500 hours in wildlife conservation projects and youth mentoring. Our hunter education instructors hold six weeklong classes, using 280 volunteer hours, to instruct over 300 students each summer. We work in hand with the BLM to provide a work force for projects such as scabland plantings of trees and shrubs, security fences. We also work with the WDFW providing volunteers for big game radio collar projects and data collection, transplanting big game, collecting and radio collaring badgers for the burrowing owl study, and the Blue Mountain Elk Calf Mortality Program. If our game department asks for help, we are there to provide it.  Our upland bird program provides feed throughout the winter, works with WDFW and the pheasant release program, works to install guzzlers throughout the area and provides a pheasant chick program.