Long known as a premier annual event for big-game hunters at home and abroad, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) convention and expo will expand in 2012 to include attractions focused on quail and other upland birds.

Five conservationists-three from the Dallas area, one from the Houston area and one from Santa Fe, N.M.-have accepted volunteer positions on the board of directors for the Dallas Safari Club (DSC).

On the strength of a record-setting convention footprint, attendance and fundraising total, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) last weekend positioned itself for new benchmarks in support of conservation, education and hunter advocacy programs in 2011.

As Dallas Safari Club (DSC) begins planning its next convention, Jan. 6-9, 2011, the benchmarks of success have never been loftier. After all, the organization's recent 2010 event concluded with several confirmed and pending new records for expo exhibits, total attendance, gate revenue, auction proceeds-all of which translates to record funding for the DSC mission in the coming year.

In recognition of its standout youth education programs and annual hunters convention, the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) has received the prestigious Sporting Heritage Award of Excellence from Sporting Classics magazine.

ESPN Outdoors has confirmed upcoming daily coverage, blogs, photo galleries and features from the Dallas Safari Club convention, January 7-10, at the Dallas Convention Center.

Dallas Safari Club (DSC) and Ducks Unlimited are working together to strengthen the overall public reach and conservation impacts of two major sporting conventions in 2010.

After being pushed to require the use of nonlead shot for dove hunting by other member of the Central Flyway, Texas Parks and Wildlife instituted its own first-of-its-kind study on the lethality of lead and nonlead shot on doves. The problem was they started two days before the opener. Although they had a permit from USFWS, the event created a public relations nightmare.