Brian Dail and his wife, Deb Davenport, live in Rapid City, South Dakota with 3 spinoni and 2 springer spaniels. Aside from a full time job, Brian's activities include an amazing amount of charitable work:

• South Dakota Youth Hunting Adventures: Treasurer and Founding Member. This new organization provides hunting opportunities to disadvantaged kids from 12 to 15. Brian has been involved from the initial concept discussion stage, through the planning, organization, fund raising (they raised over $10,000 in less than 6 weeks) to the implementation of the program. In addition, Brian recruited mentors who met the requirements developed in conjunction with Youth and Family Services and then matched each mentors with a young participant, ensuring both attended as a team the hunter safely courses and shooting training. The final stage of the program will be this September when each mentor takes his mentee out hunting and they harvest a doe. For some of these kids this doe will probably be the only meat the family will have this winter.
• South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, Regional Advisory Board Member
• Black Hills Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, Board of Director
• President, Greater Dacotah (no that isn’t a typo) Chapter, Safari Club International: Organize and plan the annual banquet and fund raising. Review and approve funding request for various groups in support of their mission. The local chapter, due to lack of leadership and management did not do a 2007 banquet and the board at that time resigned. Re-started the chapter in June of 2007 and held the most successful banquet the chapter has conducted in Jan 2008. The success was in terms of number of attendee (a record) and the number of dollars raised, again another record. In the process of planning the 2009 banquet for February and the goals of this is to increase attendance by 30% and gross revenues by 40% while maintaining a net to gross of no less than 60%.
• Commodore, Black Hills Sailing Fleet: Served as Commodore for 8 years, the longest term in the history of the club. Under Brian’s guidance the membership grew from 12 people to over 50 members and a fleet of 30 boats. Initiated and planned the annual Labor Day Regatta and party, the annual meeting of the fleet, the annual dry dock party, the annual St Patty day party, the annual launching of the fleet activities the annual Jimmy Buffet, parrothead, talk like a pirate party and the annual Fleet night at the German Tent party. In addition, Brian developed the course material for teaching a sailing class at the local community education facility.
• Scottish, Irish Society: Plan and organize the annual Gathering of the Clans festival. Annual festival free to the community including: Organize and plan the banquet to cap off the event; Plan and organize the annual Robert Burns dinner in January; Plan and organize the annual St Patrick's dinner.
• Provided testimony to various sub committees of the South Dakota Legislature on matters related to the hunting, fishing and related areas of interest.
• Three trophies in the Safari Club International record book.
• Past Chairman of the Black Hills Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. During his chairmanship, Brian ran the annual banquet for 500 plus people which typically raised between $132,000 to $150,000 in one evening to support elk habitat and elk programs.
• Past District Chairman, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation: Worked with the regional director and lent expertise and oversight to 5 chapters whose annual banquets for approximately 1200 people take in approximately $300,000 in gross receipts.
• Founder, Mule Deer Foundation Rapid City Chapter: Founded the local chapter from the ground up and guided it through its initial startup and successful fund raising events.