PrintThe American System of Funding for Wildlife and Fisheries Management holds a unique position in the world. The American System is the only program successfully funded through industry-paid federal excise taxes and license fees paid directly by sportsmen. Access to well-managed, abundant game and fish populations is the cornerstone to the successful continuation of the American System. Working towards securing access to both public and private lands is not a new endeavor to the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation - the opportunities to influence policies in 2008 are.
The American System of Wildlife Conservation is built upon access to well-managed game populations for hunters and anglers that in-turn purchase hunting and fishing equipment and supplies which generate excise taxes that fund the wildlife restoration and sportfish restoration programs. These programs support the majority of state fish and wildlife funding that enhances and sustains the abundant and well-managed game populations that hunters have and will continue to need access to that will perpetuate this ‘American funding system' into the future.
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North American Wildlife Policy Conference
The Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation Executive Order issued by President George W. Bush in August of 2007, instructs Federal agencies to "facilitate the expansion and enhancement of hunting opportunities and the management of game species and their habitat. As a result, a North American Wildlife Policy Conference is called for this year.
CSF is working within the Sporting Conservation Council (SCC) partnership to assure that the conference is a success and results in recommendations that will lay the blueprint to protect hunting well into the future.
In 2008, the outdoors community has a once-in-a-century opportunity to craft a blueprint for the future of hunting and wildlife management to perpetuate our heritage and traditions into the lifetimes of our grandchildren yet to be born.
This opportunity, in the form of the North American Wildlife Policy Conference hearkens back to the era of Theodore Roosevelt when the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation was conceived. Planning has been ongoing for several years by the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus and key conservation leaders as members of the Sporting conservation Council (SCC). The Conference will allow the SCC to present recommendations and advice to government agencies to fulfill the President's Executive Order to "facilitate the expansion and enhancement of hunting opportunities and the management of game species and their habitat."
