Why It Matters: The 2025 Ka’ohe Game Management Area (GMA) hunting season empowers sportsmen and women to manage invasive species, while protecting native ecosystems and providing sporting opportunity. By targeting feral species, hunters support the critically endangered palila, aligning with conservation goals. Highlights: The GMA hunting season runs July 3 – August 31, 2025, for …
Hawai’i’s Ka’ohe GMA Hunting Season: A Conservation Opportunity Read More »
Why It Matters: The Hawai’i Wildlife Conservation and Game Bird Stamp Art Contest highlights the intersection between art, hunting, and conservation. Showcasing native and introduced species while supporting critical wildlife management programs, funds from stamp sales directly bolster Hawai’i’s Wildlife Revolving Fund, ensuring sustainable habitats and hunting opportunities for future generations. The initiative underscores the …
Hawai’i DLNR Announces Wildlife Conservation and Game Bird Stamp Contest Winners Read More »
Why It Matters: The National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses (NASC) unites state legislators from across the nation under the NASC umbrella. While many of the focal topics are similar, each state is unique in some ways, making the diverse tools provided by the NASC network an important bridge for policy makers. Hawaii has an exceptionally …
Hawaii Legislative Outdoor Heritage Caucus Celebrates Sportsmen’s Heritage Read More »
Why It Matters: If they are left unmanaged, axis deer populations can grow to unsustainable rates on Maui Nui, harming the local watersheds and native wildlife and their habitat. Maui Nui, consisting of the Maui County islands of Maui, Lana’l, Moloka’I and Kaho’olawe, has experienced large populations of axis deer leading to several emergency proclamations …
Summary Many sportsmen and women depend on federal lands managed by agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for access to activities like hunting, fishing and recreational shooting. As these agencies develop strategies to manage federal lands, it is critical for those who support these …
Summary Concerned about the uncertainty that 30×30 policies may pose for hunting and fishing access, the sportsmen’s community issued the Hunting and Fishing Community Statement on the 30 by 30 Initiative. This statement recognizes and embraces the overlap between the sportsmen’s community’s collective work to conserve fish and wildlife species and their habitats and the …
30×30: Recognizing Sportsmen’s Contributions to Conservation Read More »
Summary Properly managed wildlife habitat is essential for supporting sustainable and healthy wildlife populations. Well-managed lands containvarious successional stages that provide a diversity of habitats capable of supporting a diversity of wildlife. On federal lands, however, young forests and other early seral habitats are often underrepresented. The most efficient method to improve wildlife habitat is …
Summary Preemption is the process where a higher level of government revokes the regulatory ability of a lower level of government. While such an action may seem prohibitive to local lawmakers, firearm and ammunition preemption prevents the creation of a confusing patchwork of local laws and ensures that all firearms owners within a state are …
Summary Instead of discarding or wasting legally harvested game meat or surpluses of meat harvested through nuisance or crop damage licenses, donation programs have developed across the country with the objective of turning the meat into meals for those in need. Many hunters who wish to donate individual animals they harvest through regulated hunting participate …
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