Contact: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Rocky Mountain States Senior Coordinator Highlights Why it Matters: Despite the outdoor sporting community’s well-established conservation legacy, the symbiotic relationship between sustainable wildlife management and hunters, anglers, and trappers has been tainted by misinformation and emotional propaganda from the anti-sporting community. The increased prevalence and severity of ballot initiatives focused on chipping …
Highlights Why it matters: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which manages national wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries, annually supports more than 2.5 million hunting days and almost 8 million fishing days, making these lands and waters a critically important place for hunters and anglers. It is important that as the System seeks …
Highlights Why it matters: The MAPLand Act and the VIP Act would help expand access on our nation’s federal public lands by providing hunters, anglers, and recreational shooters with enhanced digital and GPS technologies, as well as establishing free passes for our nation’s Veterans to access and recreate on these federal public lands. For many …
House Natural Resources Committee Seeks to Expand Access for Sportsmen and Women Read More »
Contact: Kent Keene, Senior Coordinator, Lower Midwestern States and Agriculture Policy Highlights Why it matters: Throughout much of the United States, fire has historically played an important role in shaping ecosystems, and the wildlife that inhabit them. However, land use changes and fire suppression efforts throughout the 20th century have resulted in the near extirpation …
Peace of Mind for Missouri Landowners as Governor Parson Signs Prescribed Burn Act Read More »
Highlights Why it Matters: Providing adequate funding for conservation is critical to supporting habitat work on public and private lands, managing Wildlife Management Areas, in addition to other lands open to sportsmen and women, managing fish and wildlife and populations, maintaining shooting ranges, and improving access to the outdoors. The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) worked …
Reviewing a Hot Topic in the Southeast: Conservation Funding Read More »
Contact: Nick Buggia, Upper Midwestern States Manager, and Kent Keene, Senior Coordinator, Lower Midwestern States and Agriculture Policy Highlights: Why it matters: Efforts designed to achieve conservation successes naturally vary from place to place. Even within the same region, these objectives can vary between properties, specifically between privately owned properties whose owners hold different values …
Conservation Challenges and Opportunities – Focus of CSF’s Midwest Policy Forum Read More »
Highlights Why it matters: Access is often cited as the number one reason that sportsmen and women no longer participate in hunting and fishing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which manages national wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries, annually supports more than 2.5 million hunting days and almost 8 million fishing days, making …
CSF Supports Effort to Expand Hunting and Fishing Access across Millions of Acres Read More »
Contact: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Rocky Mountain States Senior Coordinator, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Highlights: Why it Matters: Encouraging sportsmen and women’s involvement in the political process is an important method for protecting our outdoor sporting heritage. Increased public participation, particularly at the ballot box, ensures that hunters, anglers, and trappers are represented, which strengthens the ability of the …
I Fish. I Hunt. I Vote.: Arizona Secures Sportsmen Voter Registration Read More »
Contact: Nick Lewis, Mid-Atlantic States Coordinator Highlights: Why it Matters: The New York Sportsmen’s Advisory Council (NYSAC) serves a crucial role in advancing pro-hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, and trapping policies in the Empire State. NYSAC and its members realized several legislative successes this year, including monumental, caucus-driven efforts to lower the hunting age for big …
Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director Highlights: Why It Matters: Hunters are the only user group excluded from WMAs on Sundays in South Carolina. As other states have rolled back their public land Sunday hunting prohibitions (West Virginia in 2018; North Carolina in 2021), South Carolina hunters are eager to repeal the outdated regulation …
Public Land Sunday Hunting Public Meetings Announced in South Carolina Read More »
Highlights Why it Matters: The National Wildlife Refuge System has a tenured history of serving as a vehicle of access and opportunity for generations of sportsmen and women. As the Hunting and Fishing Plan recognizes, the Refuge System Improvement Act established the mission of administering “a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, …
USFWS Plans for Increased Access and Opportunities in New Hampshire and Vermont Read More »
Contact: Joe Mullin, Assistant Manager, Northeastern States and States Program Assistant Highlights Why it Matters: The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s (MassWildlife) ability to balance its books and remain financially solvent hinges on its ability to implement sporting license fees that account for inflation and the many variables that have changed since its last license …
Attention Massachusetts Sportsmen and Women: MassWildlife Needs Your Support! Read More »
Contact: Keely Hopkins, Assistant Manager, Pacific States Highlights Why It Matters: Oregon’s hunters, anglers, and trappers have long played a vital role in funding conservation and wildlife management efforts throughout the state. Under the American System of Conservation Funding (ASCF), a unique “user pays — public benefits” structure, Oregon’s sportsmen and women generate tens of …
Highlights Why it matters: This bill represents a critical step in efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change, man-made infrastructure, and natural disasters on our nation’s coastal communities. The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources estimates that 640,000 acres, approximately the size of Rhode Island, will be under water by the year 2050. Unfortunately, this …
CSF Supports Legislation to Improve Coastal Protection and Resiliency Read More »
Contact: Nick Buggia, Upper Midwestern States Manager Highlights Why it Matters: Michigan Senate Resolution 68 (SR 68), which declares July as “Conservation Month” in the state, celebrates the American System of Conservation (ASCF) and the role that sportsmen and women play in both funding conservation and helping to manage wildlife populations. In 2020 alone, hunters and …
Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director Highlights Why It Matters: Sunday hunting prohibitions are Blue Laws with no basis in wildlife management that impede hunter recruitment, retention and reactivation efforts (R3). Other user groups are not prohibited from accessing WMAs on Sundays like hunters are, and South Carolina hunters want equal access to their …
South Carolina Eyes Repeal of Antiquated Public Lands Sunday Hunting Prohibition Read More »
Contact: Keely Hopkins, Assistant Manager, Pacific States Highlights Why it matters: California’s law-abiding hunters and shooters have long played a vital role in funding conservation and wildlife management efforts throughout the state. Under the American System of Conservation Funding (ASCF), a unique “user pays—public benefits” structure, California’s sportsmen and women generate tens of millions of …
California Firearm Tax Bill Fails on Assembly Floor; Revived by Procedural Maneuvers Read More »
Thursday, June 17, 2021 (EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA)—Today, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) hosted the 4th Annual South Carolina Sporting Clays Classic in partnership with the South Carolina Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus (Caucus). Held at the National Wild Turkey Federation’s (NWTF) Palmetto Shooting Complex in Edgefield, South Carolina, the event brought together elected officials, state agency leaders, …
Highlights Why it Matters: The 30 by 30 Initiative is a global effort aimed at supporting the planet’s biodiversity needs by proposing to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by the year 2030. As the original conservationists, American sportsmen and women have been advocating for land, water, and habitat conservation that furthers this goal …
Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director Highlights Why It Matters: Opening Sunday hunting on public lands marks the culmination of a four-year effort to implement the Outdoor Heritage Enhanced Act. North Carolina hunters will now have access to Game Lands seven days a week like other user groups, and the expanded access to 1.6 …
Final Hurdle Cleared to Open Public Lands Sunday Hunting in North Carolina Read More »
