INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN TO DIVORCE HUNTERS FROM WILDLIFE POLICY

[Ohiosam]

They didn’t mention insurance companies

“A nationwide campaign is underway to limit the influence of hunters in crafting wildlife policy. The movement has gained traction in recent years as proponents work to restructure state game commissions to be less responsive to the wishes of hunters.

“This movement has really spread throughout the country,” Joe Mullin told MeatEater. Mullin works for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation as the Northeastern States Manager, and he reports that he’s observed “a more concerted, organized, and accelerated effort” to pass bills that remodel game commissions along less hunter-friendly lines.”

Inside the Campaign to Divorce Hunters from Wildlife Policy

A nationwide campaign is underway to limit the influence of hunters in crafting wildlife policy. The movement has gained traction in recent years as proponents work to restructure state game commissions to be less responsive to the wishes of hunters. “This movement has really spread throughout...

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[CJD3]

Aren't we hunters still the largest supporters , fanatically and otherwise?

 

[Wildlife]

Sustainable Development/Agenda 2030 in the making...

"Drawing on experience gained during the dust bowl era, and then during the great Sahel droughts of the 1970?s, our foreign assistance programs focused on community-based natural resource management (NRM) to improve land productivity and provide economic opportunities for communities facing recurring drought and desertification. Over the last twenty years, African farmers have transformed large areas of the Sahel by investing in an array of NRM practices, including on-farm and community forestry, soil and water conservation, and more intensive management of natural products. While farmers invested to pull themselves out of poverty and up the economic ladder, their efforts created landscapes with greater ground cover and greater diversity. USAID and its development partners focused on this sustainable land transformation by (a) bringing about policy and institutional reforms that transferred resource rights and management authorities from the government to rural communities, (b) offering organizational and enterprise management training that helped communities manage resources according to democratic and business principles, and (c) supporting action research that pioneered natural forest regeneration and soil and water conservation. USAID-supported initiatives led the way in breaking the command-and-control paradigm and in demonstrating the transformational potential of a rural population empowered by greater rights.

In many areas of the world, dryland agriculture is not the most profitable or the most appropriate use of land. Over the past 20+ years, a great number of programs have used the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) model with wildlife conservation as the primary income resource. Similar to community based programs these focus on (a) developing policy and institutional reforms that transferred resource rights and management authorities from the government to rural communities and (b) organizational and enterprise management training that assists communities to manage resources according to democratic and business principles.

Ultimately, combating desertification requires local action supported by policy, legislation and technical resources."

Source: https://sdgs.un.org/statements/united-states-america-8418

 

[Ohiosam]

Aren't we hunters still the largest supporters , fanatically and otherwise?

yes but these groups are using state legislators and elected officials to turn these agencies to their agenda.

 

[LonewolfNopack]

Ah, shouldn't impact us much here in Ohio. We are already conditioned to this and most don't even know it.

 

[at1010]

I believe, the reason they didnt mention insurance companies is that this article presents the antithesis of the argument that insurance companies are influencing wildlife regulations.

It is highlighting how we are being pitted against each other under the guise that our current conservation model doesn't work or isn't performing.

The absolute worst thing we as hunters can do is further fight among each other, while the "trojan horse" slips into power. These groups want to reduce hunter numbers and harvest - if not totally eliminate them. They want to take away land from hunters and public lands for hunting, under the presentation that "abundant wildlife is better for nature".

We as hunters will never all see eye to eye but keeping this in mind that there are a LOT of groups that want us to no longer exist, should help us find more ways to support those who support us and our passions.

IMO.

 

[LonewolfNopack]

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[giles]

They want more dead critters. They can make regulation in whatever order they wish. We will still buy in to pay the ransom/tax to hunt.