Why It Matters: The Make America Beautiful Again represents a critical commitment to America’s sportsmen and women and our nation’s conservation efforts. Many of the objectives contained in President Trump’s Executive Order are aligned with the longstanding guiding principles for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF), and this Executive Order will help serve as a springboard to bolster access for sportsmen and women and deliver on-the-ground conservation for our nation’s fish and wildlife.
Highlights:
- Recently, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Make America Beautiful Again, an action that is welcomed by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation.
- Among several important directives in the Executive Order is the specific mention of increasing access for hunting and fishing and improving voluntary conservation efforts across the country.
- CSF thanks President Trump for signing this Executive Order and for recognizing the important value that hunters and anglers play in conservation.
On July 3, President Trump signed the Make America Beautfiul Again Executive Order with the goal of improving conservation across the country and bolstering access for our time-honored traditions of hunting and fishing.
The Executive Order draws renewed attention and support for conservation and access while providing for a call to action to deliver on-the-ground programming that will benefit the sporting-conservation community. Many of the priorities contained in the Executive Order are well-aligned with the time-honored conservation ethos that hunters, anglers, and other sportsmen and women pride themselves in. Specifically, the Executive Order provides important directives to:
- Promote responsible stewardship of natural resources while driving economic growth;
- Expand access to public lands and waters for recreation, hunting, and fishing;
- Encourage responsible, voluntary conservation efforts;
- Cut bureaucratic delays that hinder effective environmental management; and
- Recover America’s fish and wildlife populations through proactive, voluntary, on-the-ground collaborative conservation efforts.
To accomplish the objectives contained in the Executive Order, a commission consisting of key members of the President’s Cabinet and senior White House staff will be organized to implement and deliver on these important goals. The Executive Order is a welcomed opportunity to deliver meaningful wins for sportsmen and women across the country, and CSF looks forward to working with the Make America Beautfiul Again Commission to make the objectives contained in the Order a reality.
