PrintIn 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.
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. Read the President's Executive Order
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.
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."
