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Contact: Keely Hopkins, Manager, Pacific Region Why It Matters: California’s law-abiding hunters and recreational 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…

May 10, 2022 (Washington D.C.) – Today, nearly 20 members of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) – the largest bipartisan caucus on Capitol Hill – gathered with industry partners and members of the sporting community for a fun and friendly afternoon of sporting clay, trap, and skeet shooting competition.

Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Director Why It Matters: The passage of the Sunday hunting legislation is a huge win for the Virginia sportsmen’s community, working with the Virginia Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus, to provide seven-day access on more than 2 million acres of public land. The defeat of the anti-trapping bills and the predator hunting…

Why it matters: With an estimated 7.5 million anglers who pursue Atlantic striped bass, it is the most economically and culturally important recreational fish species from North Carolina to Maine. It is vitally important to communities along the mid and upper Atlantic Seaboard that striped bass are sustainably managed for abundance and access by the…

Contact: Kent Keene, Assistant Manager, Lower Midwestern States and Agriculture Policy Why it matters: As sessions wind down, legislation tends to move quickly. Recently, Oklahoma has seen several pro-sportsmen bills make progress while other poorly worded bills have been defeated. As session continues to draw to a close, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) will remain…

Contact: Joe Mullin, Northeastern States Manager Why it Matters: Legislative attempts to curb the import of certain African species, commonly referred to as the “Big Five,” serves no purpose other than to unduly punish legal hunting in African nations, deflecting necessary funding for anti-poaching programs, while also financially crippling rural communities that are in great…