Efforts led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) over the last two years in Michigan have put the state’s ability to properly manage its natural resources at risk. Thankfully, those from Michigan’s sportsmen’s community and the Michigan Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus have joined forces to combat HSUS’s objective of stripping the Natural Resource…
The Michigan Senate, led by the Michigan Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus, displayed their commitment to conservation yesterday by approving the Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act (SFWCA). This citizen-initiated law is a result of the collective efforts of the Michigan sportsmen’s community to silence the emotional stirrings created by the Humane Society of the United States…
Members of the Michigan Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus, representatives from the state’s hunting and angling conservation community, and staff of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) gathered last Thursday in Lansing for a Michigan Sportsmen’s Caucus breakfast briefing. The DNR Fisheries Division staff presented an update on trout fisheries management, and staff from the Enforcement…
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) is proud to announce that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan have joined the Governors Sportsmen’s Caucus (GSC). Governors Snyder and Hassan join 24 other governors in the unified, bipartisan effort to protect and advance hunting, recreational angling and shooting and trapping. The 26 governors in…
The court-mandated review of the Huron-Manistee Land and Resource Management Plan Revision of 2006 has been dismissed. After the U.S. Forest Service approved the plan in 2006, Michigan attorney Kurt Meister sued the Service claiming that it “failed to comply with several of its own regulations and one federal statute in developing its 2006 management…
2013 Sportsmen’s Economic Impact Report – Michigan
Sportsmen and women support more jobs in Michigan than the University of Michigan, the state’s largest employer (46,000 jobs vs. 38,000). Every five years in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey on hunters and anglers, CSF produces a report on the economic impact hunters and anglers have on the economy. This information is…