What is MIC?

Safari Club International Michigan Involvement Committee (SCI MIC) was formed in 1980 as a committee of representatives from each of the Chapters of Safari Club International located within the State of Michigan to work with designated representatives of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) to coordinate funding of MDNR wildlife conservation programs and MDNR wildlife research projects that might otherwise might not be funded. 

In 1980, there were only four Safari Club Chapters in Michigan; Michigan, Detroit, Flint Regional and Mid-Michigan, yet these four SCI Chapters were able to organize and support what has turned out to be the most influential partnership between SCI and a state wildlife agency in the history of Safari Club International. The first major conservation program undertaken by SCI MIC was the reintroduction of Moose into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula during the winters of 1985 and 1987 via the transplanting of a total of 61 animals from Ontario, Canada.

Today, SCI MIC is a Michigan non-profit corporation organized pursuant to Act 162, Public acts of 1982, as amended, on a non-stock basis with membership composed of representatives of each of the SCI Chapters, currently eleven, located within the State of Michigan. SCI MIC is a tax exempt organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “code”).  

It is also a public charity described in section 509(a)(1) of the Code.  That means that individual donations to SCI MIC may be tax deductible. The purposes of SCI MIC are the coordination of support by Safari Club International and its Michigan-based Chapters of:

• Designated activities and programs of the MDNR.

• Grants to graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in wildlife and related fields at Michigan-based institutions of higher education, and

• Such other wildlife conservation and education activities as may be approved by SCI MIC.