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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…

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…

Highlights Why it matters:  Digital mapping and GPS technologies have fundamentally changed how sportsmen and women traverse federal lands. However, inconsistent and outdated record keeping practices among federal land management agencies hinders the ability of sportsmen and women to fully take advantage of these technologies, which will be addressed in part by the MAPLand Act….

Contact: Kent Keene, Senior Coordinator, Lower Midwestern States and Agriculture Policy Highlights Why it Matters: The conversations around firearms and firearm ownership continue to be a polarizing topic in American culture. To protect against legislative threats to firearm ownership, Missouri was one of several states to introduce bills challenging federal laws thought to infringe upon…

Contact: Nick Lewis, Mid-Atlantic States Coordinator Highlights Why it Matters: Legislatively mandating wildlife management decisions, thereby circumventing state fish and wildlife agency authority, sets a dangerous precedent. Our nation’s state fish and wildlife agencies have successfully and sustainably managed fish and wildlife populations and healthy ecosystems for decades, many for more than a century, and…

Highlights Why it Matters: The Governors Sportsmen’s Caucus facilitates communication and information exchange between participating offices in support of policies and regulations that promote and advance hunting, angling, recreational shooting, and trapping. The bipartisan leadership team is staffed through the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and works to protect and advance the interests of America’s sportsmen and…