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Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director On November 25, Florida Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus Member Representative Tommy Gregory pre-filed legislation that would increase harassment protections for sportsmen and women and create a sales tax holiday for hunting and fishing supplies. Specifically, House Bill 777 would augment the statute prohibiting harassment of hunters, anglers and trappers…

Contact: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Inter-Mountain Western States Coordinator In a recent lawsuit filed by the Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians and Wilderness Watch against the US Forest Service (USFS) and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), environmental groups aim to ban bear-baiting in both Idaho and Wyoming, claiming that these federal agencies are violating the Endangered…

Contact: Ellary TuckerWilliams, Inter-Mountain Western States Coordinator On November 21, the New Mexico Game Commission unanimously voted to approve a proposed regulation, prohibiting recreational trapping of cougars within the state for the 2020-2024 seasons. The attack on sportsmen’s trapping traditions and heritage in New Mexico ramped up during the 2019 legislative session after an extremely…

Contact: Brent Miller, Senior Director, Northeastern States On November 20, pro-sportsmen legislation introduced by New York Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus Member Senator Patrick Gallivan – which increases penalties for those who violate hunting, fishing, and trapping laws – was signed into law by the Governor. The law-abiding sportsmen’s community honors a strong tradition of ethics and…

December 5, 2019 (WASHINGTON, DC) – Earlier today, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act and the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act on a strong bipartisan vote, two top priority pieces of legislation for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF).

On December 5, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act and the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act on a strong bipartisan vote, two top priority pieces of legislation for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF). Since the beginning of this Congress, CSF has worked to help introduce and advance…