Higher calling wildlife expeditions
Higher calling wildlife expeditions
- Our Wild Wishes® program grants wildlife encounters to children with a critical illness or loss of a parent or sibling.
- Higher Calling Wild Wishes Expeditions takes teens from the program with an interest in conservation on expeditions to train them in becoming conservationists of mountain and forest wildlife. We believe children facing challenges should NOT have barriers to getting involved with wildlife. We provide an on-ramp and mentorship.
- These teens learn how to use media, social media and do public speaking about wildlife, their experiences on our expeditions and how others can get involved in conservation awareness.
past Expeditions & Current projects
bighorn translocation
Sheep Scrapbook project
Sheep Scrapbook project
Reannah got to participate in a desert bighorn capture and translocation courtesy of our program and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. She is now a senior at Texas Tech and majoring in wildlife management.
Sheep Scrapbook project
Sheep Scrapbook project
Sheep Scrapbook project
We are issuing challenge coins for those who submit photos of wild sheep in North America to raise awareness to their conservation issues, particularly getting pneumonia from domestic sheep which is a certain death sentence.
Turkey releases
Sheep Scrapbook project
stream awareness & native fisheries expeditions
Partnering with the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department we have been taking kids on eastern turkey releases in the Pineywoods of East Texas.
stream awareness & native fisheries expeditions
stream awareness & native fisheries expeditions
stream awareness & native fisheries expeditions
We take annual expeditions into the Texas Hill Country to teach flyfishing and raise awareness to the native Guadalupe bass fishery.
sea turtle release
stream awareness & native fisheries expeditions
sea turtle release
Lauren and her best friend Reannah got to release rehabbed injured green sea turtles courtesy of our program and the Amos Research Keep. This release is what inspired Reannah to change her degree plan when she started college the next month and get involved with wildlife management.