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Protect, Defend and Champion the Hunt.The threats to hunting and conservation have never been greater—and neither has our resolve to protect them. Hunt 2 Conserve’s mission is to advance a legacy of hunting and conservation by educating, activating and developing stewards and defenders of these fundamentally American ideals. From Congress and state capitols across the country, to the courts and the media, H2C works to influence the debate around hunting and protect our right to hunt and conserve our wildlife for future generations. The fight has never been more important than it is today. |
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Anti-Hunting Efforts
Animal rights groups and some radical environmental organizations are aggressively working to take away our right to hunt. They are actively fighting in state legislatures, Congress, the courts and the ballot box to stop hunting. We can’t let that happen. In Oregon, radical animals rights advocates failed in 2022 and 2024 to qualify a ballot initiative to make hunting, fishing, trapping and farming illegal. However, they are actively gathering many more signatures right now, and it may happen in 2026. This must be defeated!
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Protecting the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is a set of principles that guides wildlife management in the United States, emphasizing that wildlife is a public trust, managed for the benefit of all citizens. Its core principles highlight the democracy of hunting, and hunting as an essential tool to effectively manage wildlife resources. Many litigant environmental groups continue to threaten this time‑tested model and wish to remove hunting as a tool. They seek to eliminate the hunting community's role and influence in conservation despite the fact that hunters disproportionately fund wildlife resource management through licenses, permits, conservation stamps, excise taxes on gear and ammunition, and make donations to nongovernmental organizations like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
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Public Lands AdvocacyVast and healthy public lands are a unique American treasure, and like wildlife itself, is of the public trust. Our public lands provide critical access for hunting as well as a multitude of other recreation activities. Sustaining our public lands is essential to big game that require large and diverse habitats to survive. Recently, we witnessed an increase in misguided politicians pushing for the large‑scale transfer or sale of federal public lands and we strongly oppose such efforts. |
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Active Forest ManagementMore than a century of wildfire suppression, increased spread of invasive species and a lack of active forest management has left our forests in a degraded condition. More than ever, our forests need to be actively managed to improve habitat and overall forest health, and to mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires, both for wildlife and our communities. Litigant environmental groups, primarily using a flawed court decision in 2015 to stall hundreds of forest management projects each year, leading to catastrophic wildfires that decimate critical habitat and threaten public safety. |
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Predator ManagementPredators have an important role in the balance of an ecosystem and should be managed by state wildlife resource professionals according to the best available science. Unfortunately, “ballot box biology” has become more prevalent as animal rights groups and environmental organizations appeal to misinformed voters to make wildlife management decisions at the polls. Just as big game species are managed by the science, research and expertise of state wildlife managers, predators should be as well. |
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