Now more than ever there is a need to ensure that sportsmen’s interests are well represented in your state capital - those who are working to end our hunting and fishing traditions have found state government to be a vulnerable target.

Prompted by the increasing frequency of attacks on hunting, fishing and the shooting sports at the state level, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation is responding with a powerful answer - a network of legislative sportsmen’s caucuses providing an identified group of allies that can quickly be called into action.

In December 2004, to provide the unique support and assistance that is necessary to help coordinate state sportsmen’s caucuses, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation launched the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses at the first National Congress of Sportsmen’s Caucuses. The new organization will serve as the umbrella association for the individual state sportsmen’s caucuses ensuring communication and interaction among the growing list of states with caucuses.

With the formation of the NASC, sportsmen and women as well as the industry that supports them now have more than 1,500 legislators in 21 states that have banded together to protect and promote their interests. The number of state caucuses and legislators belonging to those caucuses is expected to jump to 25 states and more than 2,000 legislators by early 2005.

To date the CSF is working with 21 state caucuses on a variety of sportsmen's issues. Over 2000 legislators, representing 45% of the legislators in those 19 states are involved with the sportsmen's caucuses. Our goal is to have a state legislative sportsmen's caucus in half the states by the end of 2004.