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Hunt. Conserve. Protect.The mission of Hunt 2 Conserve is to advance a legacy of hunting and conservation by educating, activating and developing stewards of these fundamentally American ideals. Hunt 2 Conserve works in Congress and state capitols along with agency leaders, appointed officials and at the grassroots level to influence rules, regulations, policies and laws that impact hunters and our ability to implement conservation on the landscape. The fight has never been more important than it is today. |
— Issues at Stake — |
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Anti-Hunting Legislation
Animal rights groups and some litigant environmental organizations are more aggressively working to take away our right to hunt. These hostile attempts are commonly employed during election cycles in the form of ballot initiatives, feeding the public bad science, bias sentiment and other misinformation to promote their anti-hunting agenda. For example, in 2024, Colorado Proposition 127 sought to prohibit the hunting of mountain lions, lynx and bobcats. While hunting lynx is already illegal under both state and federal law, the proposition framed hunting mountain lions and bobcats as “trophy hunting,” an activity that is also illegal and a term used to stoke anti‑hunting sentiment through the spread of misinformation. Voters in Colorado did not pass the proposition; however, more attempts are looming and in multiple states.
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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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