Collective voice for sportsmen - www.trcp.org

[biederboat]

I just came across this in outdoor life - Jim Range, an attorney in Washington D.C., has formed the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. The group's main goal is to align hunting and fishing conservation groups behind important causes while providing expert advice and direction.

It's free to join at www.trcp.org and members receive a free newsletter. The founder has tapped some big foundations (like the Turner Foundation), some of which have funded things like Green Peace. Apparently some of these funding organizations want to get sportsmen to shift the focus to more moderate causes like clean water and land preservation.

I'm not necessarily endorsing this organization but I do plan to visit it and, if it looks good, join!

Biederboat

[skein]

Bieder,

I agree, this could be a good thing.

I will listen more closely when Ted Turner enrolls his Montana ranch in a program like Colorado's Ranching for Wildlife and lets hunters apply for and gain access to it.

I will listen when I see them responsible for building boat ramps where we now have mud slides, and lobbying the power people to continue releasing water for smolts.

Until I see actions such as this they will remain what they have always been - the opposition.

Skein