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(June 18, 2026) – Washington, DC – Yesterday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the America the Beautiful Act, a top priority for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), which seeks to reauthorize and build upon the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act. Our uniquely American federal public lands are central to our time-honored traditions […]

(June 16, 2026) – RESTON, VA — The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Crane has received the National Wildlife Federation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his decades-long commitment to advancing wildlife conservation, protecting America’s hunting and angling traditions, and building partnerships that strengthen the conservation movement nationwide. “Few conservation leaders […]

Why It Matters: Delaware may be the second-smallest state in the U.S. by land area, but continues to be a leader in sportsmen and women’s issues. Delaware Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus (Caucus)-led House Bill 278 (HB 278) or known as the “Omnibus Sportsmen’s Package” repealed the last remaining legislatively prohibited game species for Sunday hunting (small game) and provided the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental […]

Why It Matters: As the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) has covered on many occasions, Massachusetts and Maine remain the only two states in the country with an outright ban on Sunday hunting. Governor Maura Healey introduced her supplemental budget, House Bill 5377, that included a full repeal of the Sunday hunting ban, updated crossbow language to allow for […]

Why It Matters: New York was home to one of the nation’s most infamous and influential conservationists of all time, Theodore Roosevelt. It is hard to imagine that just over 100 years after his death, we see some of the biggest attacks on sportsmen and women in the Empire State through anti-conservation and anti-sporting legislation. Senate Bill 5014 (S. 5014)/Assembly Bill 1616 (A. […]

Why It Matters: Educating federal policymakers about the challenges impacting private working forests and federal forests is key to advancing policy solutions to support healthy forests and wildlife habitat. The forest industry and the sportsmen’s community share goals for forest resiliency and conservation. Highlighting these shared priorities at a briefing helps move the needle on policies to improve the management of federal […]