The National Wild Turkey Federation has an exciting way to keep North America's hunting tradition alive: Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship (JAKES).
JAKES is the NWTF's program aimed at sportsmen and women in the making, aged 17 and younger. The program is designed to allow children to learn the basic outdoors skills necessary to become successful stewards of our natural resources.
Through the JAKES program, children will learn to be responsible outdoorsmen and women through hunting, fishing and camping seminars. In addition to learning how to call in and bag trophy tom turkeys, the program teaches children to identify plants and animals and a variety of other outdoors skills.
The Longbeards of the Big South Fork chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is proud to have more than two dozen of Scott County's outdoorsmen and women of tomorrow enrolled in the JAKES program through the local chapter. If you would like your child to take part in the program, call Chapter President Jerry Lay at 569-5400 or email him at jerlay@highland.net to sign your child up today. A membership to the JAKES program is only $5.00 per year and includes a one-year subscription to Jakes Magazine, and a membership card and decal.
The Longbeards of the BSF will host its first JAKES Day in June 2005. Though the event has not been finalized, the JAKES Day will provide an opportunity for young turkey hunters to shoot skeets and partake in other outdoors activities. For more information about the JAKES Day, contact Longbeards of the BSF's JAKES Coordinator Tony Williams at 423-663-2279.
At this year's Longbeards of the BSF NWTF Super Fund Banquet (February 26, more info), a JAKES air rifle will be given away to one lucky JAKES member in attendance.
The NWTF Jakes Site
