Take A Kid Hunting Billboards along Indiana’s busiest expressways are promoting Indiana’s first-ever “Take a Kid Hunting Day” Sept. 17. On that day, conservation clubs across the state will conduct hunts to give the state’s young people a chance to go afield. The event is being promoted with the help of an $18,000 NSSF Hunting Heritage Partnership grant. “Like our annual free fishing day, we’d like to see it become a day you mark on your calendar to start a young person hunting and give them the opportunity for a lifetime of enjoyment,” said Mark Reiter, public lands program manager for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. Nearly $1.5 million in grants has been distributed to state wildlife agencies in the last three years by NSSF so that states can implement programs to increase hunting opportunities.