The 2025 ICOO Karl E Kelley Memorial Youth Camp will be held June 15 – 21, 2025 at Ross Camp, West Lafayette. Each year IHEA assists the camp with the manpower needed to assist the Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division putting on the Hunter Education portion of the camp. This also includes the Range Day that will be held on Tuesday, June 17th. This is a monumental task where each camper gets the opportunity to experience the hands on training of shooting Archery, Shotgun, Black Powder, Rifles and Pistols.

If you are an instructor for any of our programs (4-H Shooting Sports, Indiana NASP, Trapper Education, or Hunter Education) please consider volunteering! We need your help!

The Indiana Hunter Education Association, in partnership with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division, Outdoor Education Section sponsors the Indiana Volunteer Instructor, Indiana Teaching Team and Indiana Conservation Officer district recognition awards. This is an opportunity to show our appreciation to the men and women who go beyond what is required of them as Hunter and Trapper Education Instructors.

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Mission Statement

…to promote hunter education by providing a medium for the exchange of views and experience; by fostering individual, federal-state, and state cooperation and coordination in mutual problems; by promoting the reciprocal recognition of properly educated hunters between districts of the state of Indiana; by cultivating characteristics of honesty, self-discipline, self-reliance, mutual consideration, essentials of good sportsmanship and good citizenship; by promoting programs to prevent hunter accidents; by upholding the image of hunting both as a legitimate tool of wildlife management and as a recreational sport throughout the state of Indiana and to carry out the effective presentation and dissemination of these purposes.