Why It Matters: The future of hunting, fishing, and America’s outdoor traditions depends on more than recruitment. It hinges on smart conservation policy, access to quality land, and educating the next generation about their role on the landscape. Bringing basic hunter education to the classroom serves as an excellent avenue to support the next generation […]
Why It Matters: The long-term success of conservation depends on engaging the next generation of sportsmen and women. Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) supports policies and initiatives that promote recruitment, retention, and reactivation (R3), strengthen hunter and angler education programs, and remove barriers to youth participation to help ensure conservation funding, wildlife management, and outdoor traditions […]
Why It Matters: The fundamental necessities for wildlife to persist are food, shelter, and water. Lack of access to any one of these needs impacts individual animal survival and potentially the persistence of entire populations of wildlife. Ensuring wildlife can reach these needs is a core component of habitat connectivity. Unfortunately, habitat connectivity is compromised in many places throughout our country. Habitat […]
Why It Matters: Last month New Hampshire Fish and Game (NHFG) conducted a series of listening and comment sessions concerning long overdue license fee increases. The “user pays – public benefits” structure known as the American System of Conservation Funding (ASCF) provides critical annual funding for the NHFG to manage fish, wildlife, and other public trust […]
Why It Matters: License sales and excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, archery equipment, fishing equipment, motorboat fuel, and other sporting-related goods account for the largest source of conservation funding in the United States. This “user pays – public benefits” approach, known as the American System of Conservation Funding (ASCF), provides critical annual funding for the New Hampshire Fish and Game […]
Why It Matters: Though hunting, fishing, and harvesting wildlife (including by trapping) have long been an American tradition, dating back to before the first Europeans arrived in North America, only in recent decades has the “right” to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife come into question. To establish in perpetuity what has been assumed for centuries, twenty-four states have […]
Why It Matters: Though hunting, fishing, and harvesting wildlife (including by trapping) have long been an American tradition, dating back to before the first Europeans arrived in North America, only in recent decades has the “right” to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife come into question. To establish in perpetuity what has been assumed for centuries, twenty-four states have […]