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Contact: Joe Mullin, Assistant Manager, Northeastern States On February 10, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s (CSF) Assistant Manager, Northeastern States, Joseph Mullin, testified during a New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee hearing in support of House Bill 338 (HB 338) – legislation that provides increased protections for the Granite State’s sporting dogs, and…

Contact: Kent Keene, Lower Midwestern States Coordinator Last week, both the House and Senate versions of Missouri’s “Prescribed Burning Act” (HB 369 and SB 301) were before the House Rural Community Development and Senate Agriculture, Food Products, and Outdoor Resources Committees, respectively. Ahead of the Senate Committee’s hearing, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) submitted a…

Contact: Joe Mullin, Assistant Manager, Northeastern States On February 8, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s (CSF) Assistant Manager, Northeastern States, Joseph Mullin, testified during a Maine Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife hearing in support of Legislative Document 142 (LD 142). This legislation would provide the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) Commissioner the…

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that the current general signup period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has been extended again, this time with no deadline formally established.Originally scheduled to end on February 12, 2021, USDA plans to continue accepting offers as the incoming Administration evaluates the current status of the…

Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director On February 1, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) submitted a letter to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (Commission) supporting proposed regulations that would open Sunday hunting on public lands, allow the use of breech-charging muzzleloader products, and permit trappers to utilize remote trap checking systems. Sunday Hunting…

Contact: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Inter-Mountain Western States Coordinator Sportsmen and women are beginning to stir in New Mexico after a public lands trapping ban – erroneously titled the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act (SB 32) – passed out of the Senate Conservation Committee (Committee) last Tuesday. Nothing about SB 32 benefits conservation or public safety and the outdoor…