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 2021 camping season, Camp Woodie is expecting 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 9,000 students attend Camp Leopold during the 2021/2022 school year. Camp Leopold attracts students from both public and private schools. The program boasts over $250,000 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. With the growth in the number of campers at Camp Woodie from 100 in 1995 to over 1,100 in 2021, and the growth in the number of Camp Leopold attendees from 300 in 2013 to a projected attendance of over 9,000 in the 2021/2022 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.
