Founded in 1936, the Idaho Wildlife Federation is Idaho’s oldest and largest statewide conservation organization promoting the conservation of Idaho’s wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities. IWF quickly became the state’s leading voice and influence to curtail decline and rebound game and wildlife populations. Two years after our founding, IWF successfully campaigned for the passage of the Citizen’s Initiative of 1938, establishing an independent commission to guide wildlife management by the North American Model. Through the shared goals of our affiliate clubs, we sought out to return habitat and wildlife through ecologic restoration, education, and policy change.
Today, the Idaho Wildlife Federation is the voice of Idaho’s wildlife, habitat, public lands and sporting interests. In the state legislature we serve a daily presence to advance proactive legislation for the benefit of wildlife and access, and defeat bills that would roll back fish and wildlife protections, privatize wildlife, and seize our shared public lands for sale or special interest exploitation.
We also engage communities by involving local constituents to create local solutions. By coordinating boots on the ground grassroots efforts, IWF fosters and promotes a general and continued movement for the conservation, restoration, protection, and scientific supervision of all game, fish, fowl, and other wildlife in the state.
