MUCC Affiliation

MUCC Affiliation
The Muskegon Conservation Club is affiliated with MUCC, the Michigan United Conservation Clubs. Part of our members’ dues is forwarded to MUCC to maintain membership for each MCC member in MUCC. The MUCC may be the most influential and effective voice for conservation in Michigan. The MUCC has been involved for decades in promoting laws to protect the environment and maintain adequate habitats for hunting and fishing. The organization also supports conservation education through school programs, Hunter Safety Training, and summer camp for kids. The Muskegon Conservation Club helps sponsor the summer camp, and is always looking for children to sponsor. The camp week is an exciting and often new experience, as the kids learn about enjoying and preserving nature, as well as receiving instruction in skills like archery, fishing, canoeing, swimming, hiking, forestry, wildlife identification, and basic firearm safety. Campers have the opportunity to earn their hunter education certificates.
Michigan United Conservation Clubs is the largest statewide conservation organization in the nation. Founded in 1937, our mission is to unite citizens to conserve, protect and enhance Michigan’s natural resources and outdoor heritage. This mission drives everything we do as an organization.
MUCC Membership
Our strength is in our membership and support: over 40,000 hunters, anglers, trappers and conservationists and over 200 affiliated local clubs around the state. We were founded in 1937 with a simple purpose: harness the combined strength of Michigan’s outdoors community to protect conservation from politics. Since then, we have been the foremost power in Michigan protecting the rights to hunt, fish and trap. Our policies are determined by our members through Michigan’s most robust grassroots policy-setting process. Our experienced and professional staff carry out the resolutions adopted by our members through a suite of conservation programs ranging from direct advocacy and communications to on-the-ground wildlife habitat conservation and youth outdoor education.
Michigan Conservation
Our award-winning On the Ground (OTG) wildlife habitat conservation program launched in 2013. As a partnership with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, it has engaged more than 3,000 volunteers in dozens of fish and wildlife habitat projects on public lands and waters around the state. Additionally, our On the Water program was launched in 2019 and has removed nearly 4,000 pounds of trash from Michigans lakes, streams and rivers.
Education
The Michigan Out-of-Doors Youth Camp, located at the Cedar Lake Outdoor Center in Chelsea, Michigan, has educated over 58,000 youth since its founding over 70 years ago, introducing generations of Michiganders to the outdoors.