Why It Matters: Although sportsmen and women typically use camouflage to remain stealthy while afield, it has the opposite effect when worn in a state capitol building and quickly communicates an important message amongst the suits that typically occupy the halls of government. By coordinating an advocacy day like last week’s event in Wisconsin, hunters, anglers, and trappers can effectively demonstrate their support for key sporting-conservation issues to lawmakers.
Highlights:
- More than seventy-five hunters, anglers, and trappers dressed in camouflage and blaze orange to conduct meetings with legislators in Wisconsin last week.
- Small groups of camo-clad participants held thirty-minute meetings with state lawmakers and staff, and by the end of the day, the cohort had met with more than fifty legislative offices.
- The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) is proud to have joined national partners and Wisconsinites in advocating for the Badger State’s sporting-conservation heritage.
Donned in camouflage and blaze orange, CSF joined partners and Wisconsin hunters, anglers, and trappers in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison last week to conduct highly coordinated, sit-down meetings with more than fifty Wisconsin legislative offices. The advocacy day was an impressive display by the sportsmen and women of Wisconsin, intended to demonstrate the sporting community’s strong support for two key issues in Wisconsin: reauthorizing the state’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund and the establishment of a sandhill crane hunt.
Over the past two years, CSF has consistently supported and emphasized the importance of the Stewardship Fund’s reauthorization, which has stood as the Badger State’s dedicated funding mechanism for public land acquisition and habitat management for nearly four decades. Over the same multi-year timeframe, CSF has also worked to support the legislative effort to establish a sandhill crane hunt – including attending a committee hearing held last week where CSF expressed formal support for the bill.
CSF organizes and participates in similar events in capitol buildings across the country and will continue to leverage the voice of sportsmen and women (the original conservationists and the primary funders of wildlife conservation in America) in the policy arena.
