The participation rates in the state have dropped around five percent in hunting and nearly 15 percent in angling since the 1980s. For the past decade, the number of sportsmen and women in Minnesota has remained stable, with approximately 1.1 million resident anglers and 550,000 resident hunters. While the number of sportsmen and women are…
On August 29, U.S. federal court Judge Freda Wolfson ruled in favor of sportsmen and women by prohibiting the state of New Jersey from enforcing Senate Bills 977 and 978. These anti-sportsmen bills would have banned New Jersey hunters from importing, exporting, and possessing the African “Big Four” (elephant, leopard, lion, and rhinoceros) hunting trophies…
On September 1, members of the North Dakota Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus gathered at Capital City Sporting Clays outside Bismarck, North Dakota for the 2nd Annual Legislative Shoot with members of the North Dakota sportsmen’s community. Participants worked through a 10 station sporting clay course and finished with a five-person flurry shoot. The flurry shoot was…
On September 6, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), alongside numerous conservation partners, submitted a letter of opposition on Pennsylvania House Bill 2083 (HB 2083) to members of the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee. The following conservation organizations joined CSF in voicing concerns about HB 2083: Ducks Unlimited, National Deer Alliance, National Wild Turkey Federation, Pennsylvania…
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meets next week in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to discuss pending management options that eventually could impact recreational anglers from North Carolina to the Florida Keys. One item on the agenda is a proposed reallocation of dolphin fish (also called mahi-mahi or dorado) from the recreational to the commercial…
Recently, the Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council (WHHCC) wrote a letter to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell requesting that the Administration consider supporting legislation entitled the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act (S. 2690 and H.R. 4818) that includes strategies to sustain conservation funding and participation levels in hunting and recreational…