President Bush Issues Executive Order Directing Federal Agencies to Take Steps to Improve Hunting

Written by Congressional Sportsmenšs Foundation

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Washington, DC, August 20 - Hunters should take note and praise President Bush's Executive Order directing federal land management agencies to implement actions to improve the management of wildlife on public lands in an effort to expand and enhance hunting opportunities. To advance the goals of the Executive Order, President Bush is calling for a White House Conference to convene within the year to focus specifically on North American wildlife policy. "This Executive Order speaks volumes to the recognition by the White House of the significance of hunting in America and its enormous impact not only from a conservation standpoint, but from an economic one as well," stated Jeff Crane, Vice-Chairman of the Sporting Conservation Council and President of the Congressional Sportsmenšs Foundation. The Sporting Conservation Council is a federally chartered advisory committee that advises the departments of the Interior and Agriculture on wildlife conservation issues, including hunting access and trends. President Bush is asking that the Sporting Conservation Council work with the federal agencies to coordinate the conference, which was recommended by the Council in a letter to the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior this past January. "The Sporting Conservation Council is pleased to see the recommendations we put forth put into action. Only through a coordinated effort, such as the one called for in this Executive Order, will we be able to ensure a robust hunting future in America," commented Crane. "As rural lands stretched across the country continue to disappear, access to federal lands for hunting will become increasingly important." Nearly 700 million acres of public lands are managed by the departments of the Interior and Agriculture. And according to the latest figures released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, more than 12 million hunters spend a total of 225 million days pursuing their game, spending an estimated $23 billion annually on hunting activities.

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