S.P.O.R.T.: Ethics for Everyone

Sportsmen Protecting Our Resources Together, (SPORT), is a Missouri Department of Conservation outdoor ethics program designed to improve our awareness of how we use the outdoors and the responsibility connected to that use. In Missouri, SPORT is the foundation for not only Hunter Education, but also our complete Outdoor Skills Education program. It provides enough variety in its form to integrate it into an overall outdoor education curriculum within a school or youth organization. This paper will discuss goals of the SPORT program, examine how it is used in hunter education and other outdoor education programs and evaluate the future need for outdoor ethics.