The South Carolina Waterfowl Association conducts summer and school year camping programs for children. Camp Woodie is a traditional summer camp where the campers learn about wildlife conservation, hunting, fishing, outdoor skills, and the environment. During the 2026 camping season, Camp Woodie hosted over 1,100 campers registered for one of the ten one-week sessions it offers.
During the school year the SCWA facilities are utilized to conduct Camp Leopold. The Camp Leopold campers are secondary school students who come the Camp for one, two or three day camp sessions designed to teach students from public and private schools about natural resource conservation, ecology and how mankind can live in harmony with Mother Nature. SCWA expects to have over 6,500 students attend Camp Leopold during the 2026/2027 school year. Camp Leopold attracts students from both public and private schools. The program boasts over $50,000 in annual scholarship funding for title 1 school students to attend Camp Leopold.
On the weekends, SCWA also operates its Outdoor Heritage Events program. Heritage Events include parent child shooting sports clinics, duck, dove, and deer hunts, retriever trials, bass fishing tournaments, archery tournaments and wildlife management and hunting skills weekends.
During the winter waterfowl season the SCWA facilities are utilized by waterfowl hunters.
The use of SCWA property and facilities is efficiently maximized with four different uses, which do not overlap with one another.
To date, the Foundation has spent over $3.9 million supporting SCWA projects.
Boyd Camp
In 2017, the Foundation purchased 127 acres adjacent to the Wildlife Education Center to create Boyd Camp. It also funded the purchase of deer stands, the construction of a sporting clays course, a thirty-five-acre duck pond with five blinds, and a campground with five cabins. Operated by the SCWA, Boyd Camp provides shooting sports, duck and deer hunting, and camping for children ages ten to seventeen. All adults must be accompanied by a child!
Boyd Dining Hall at Camp Woodie
With the growth in the number of campers at Camp Woodie from 100 in 1995 to over 1,100 in 2026, and the growth in the number of Camp Leopold attendees from 300 in 2013 to a projected attendance of over 6,500 in the 2026/2027 school year, the existing dining facilities were overwhelmed. In 2020 ground was broken for the Boyd Dining Hall which was completed in April of 2021, just in time for the Camp Woodie 2021 campers. The Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation was proud to provide the funding for the construction of the Boyd Dining Hall.
Boyd Lodge at Camp Woodie
The Boyd Lodge provides much needed accommodations for female campers and plays a vital role in helping the SCWA further its mission — to enhance and perpetuate our wildlife heritage through education and habitat conservation. With this lodge, the SCWA is able to expand hands-on conservation education to more young sportswomen, empowering future leaders in our field.
