Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) is an award-winning outdoors skills program. Workshops teach introductory hunting and shooting, fishing, and other outdoor activities like camping and canoeing in a supportive environment. The weekend-long workshops offer over 20 different activities including firearm safety, basic fishing, fly fishing, camping, shotgun, rifle, bowhunting and archery, outdoor cooking, canoeing, map and compass, survival and more!
Sponsor and volunteer opportunities
Wisconsin BOW Friends on the Web
Corporate or Group Retreats
We can create a BOW event especially for your
group. Click here for sample agendas
or contact us with your ideas and needs:
pfarrell@uwsp.edu, 715/346-4681
2008-2009 Calendar of Events
NEW! FIELD
DAY, Saturday, May 3,
NEW! MINI-BOW,
DATE TBA at the Taylor County
Conservation Club (about 14 miles
west of Medford) mini-BOW. Join us for a day of fishing, canoeing, .22 rifle shooting,
and archery.
"New Camper" seminar at the
Westfield High School, 12-4. A family event with seminars, activities
for kids, door prizes, exhibitors... Boy and Girl Scout troops, 4-H
clubs, local outdoor recreation businesses, DNR, National Scenic Ice Age
Trail chapters, State Parks, local falconer, REI camping demos and
Wisconsin BOW!
No Pre-registration necessary
- just show up and enjoy
the afternoon. The first 50 visitors to the BOW booth will receive BOW
pin. Sign up at the booth to have your name included in a drawing for a
free BOW workshop registration! CLICK HERE for a map to the Westfield
High School (located at the red star).
Get to Know BOW!, April 26, 2008
Registration open
Mackenzie Environmental Center,
Poynette, WI. Explore...Wildlife Exhibits and the unique property.
Then learn all about Geocaching, a treasure hunting adventure using a GPS to
find "caches" hidden on the property.
A great way to spend a spring day
and to be introduced to BOW!
Click here for more information.
Beyond BOW,
June 7-8, 2008
Registration open
Central Wisconsin
Environmental Station, Amherst, WI.
Fly Fishing at the Nancy Rose Farm on the
beautiful Waupaca/Tomorrow and Water World Boating Basics to include
motorboat handling, pontooning, personal watercraft, canoeing and kayaking
- a sampler platter of on-the-water recreation. Optional early arrival on
Friday night with activities including horseback riding and an evening
campfire.
NEW!
Saturday, June 28th from
9:30-2:30, Sporting Clays Clinic,
Registration open!!!Hunter's Park, Brillion, WI. Take your shooting skills to the next
level! Enjoy one-on-one and group instruction where you will learn to
recognize angles of attack and to understand the relationship between
speed and lead. Build good
habits and transform into a better, more confident shooter. Limit 15
shooters.
Click here for more information.
18th
Annual Summer BOW Workshop
August 22-24, 2008
Treehaven Field Station,
Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The Original BOW with over 20 different hands-on
activities including archery, canoeing, survival, shotgun skills, map and
compass, fly fishing, outdoor cooking and more.
NEW!
September 4-7, 2008
Apostle Islands BOW Adventure
Join
instructors Darrell Toliver, Kelly VanLaanen and Tim Pflieger on this once
in a lifetime adventure of the Apostle Islands, on the shores of Lake
Superior in Northern Wisconsin.
NEW! Saturday, September 13, Lake Michigan Charter Fishing with the fabulous Wolf Pack Adventures team, Sheboygan. Early morning on the big lake is magic! If you have never charter fished, this is the place to do it. You will have hands-on instruction in boat setup; dock line and electrical; weather and license checks; boating safety, (rules of the road and PFDs); equipment including downriggers, rods and reels, fish locators, marine radios, GPS; bait selection; fish netting; fish ID; taking timely photos. Your fish will be bagged and stored on ice for transporting home. Optional activities will be scheduled in the afternoon. Limit 12 anglers.
October 31-November 2, Learn to Hunt Deer program. (This event is currently full. To have your name added to our mailing list, send your request to pfarrell@uwsp.edu
Saturday, November 8, our annual Sporting Clays and Pheasant Hunt day, Hunters Park, Brillion, WI.
11th annual
Winter BOW workshop,
February 20-22, 2009
Treehaven Field Station, Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
Dog Sledding, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing, Rifle Markswoman, Winter
Ecology, Ice Fishing and more.
Watch for links - details coming soon!