About

The Indiana Hunter Education Association (IHEA) was established in 1992 as a non-for-profit organization designed to promote and support the Indiana Hunter Education Program of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division. To date, IHEA is very active in assisting the Division with many trainings, expositions, equipment purchases, programs, and more. Some of these include Indiana Becoming an Outdoor Woman, Indiana NASP, Indiana State Fair Education Booth, Treestand Safety Programs, Indiana 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor Workshops, and more. IHEA’s motto for our belief that the tradition, history, and heritage of hunting is “An Indiana Tradition…Pass it on!”

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.

Structure

The Indiana Hunter Education Association is governed by a Board of Directors representing the ten operating districts throughout the state of Indiana. Listed below are the current Board of Directors:

District Directors

District 1 – Mark Demske*
District 2 – Doug Chapman*
District 3 – Barb Trenary*
District 4 – Robyn Woodruff*
District 5 – Danny Burdine
District 6 – Kevin Fowler
District 7 – Jared L Beck
District 8 – Drewey Phelps
District 9 – Curt Barringer
District 10 – Ray Rausch*

At Large Directors

North Region

  • Kevin Lockwood
  • Keith Steward
  • Roger Hosbrook
  • Lynn Smith

South Region

  • Stephen Spencer*
  • Perry Frey*
  • Craig Roberts*

Executive Board

    • President Roger Hosbrook*
      Vice President Mark Demske*
      Recording Secretary Stephen Spencer
      Treasurer/Membership Secretary Robyn Woodruff

Ex-Officio Directors

    • Steve Dickover
      Jim Mahoney
      Brent Headland
      Robby Woodruff

Indiana Conservation Officer Directors

    • ICO Jon Cook – North Region
      ICO Ryan McCauly – North Region
      ICO Travis Stewart – South Region
      ICO Brad Barker – South Region
      ICO Tony Mann – At Large

* – Term / Office Ends in 2025