Opening America’s vast federal lands to outdoors recreational activity is the expressed goal of David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, who visited Alabama’s Gulf Coast last week for a whirlwind tour.
Government
Monday, June 22, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden is widely known for his gaffes, but his claim during Tuesday evening’s chaotic Democratic debate that “150 million people have been killed since 2007” was simply outrageous, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response.
Friday, July 19, 2019
The billionaire-supported gun prohibition movement has re-packaged its gun control agenda as a public health crisis, trying to convince the public that the cure to violent crime is to amputate the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights, the Second Amendment Foundation said.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
On the heels of a scathing February 20 article by reporter Tony Kennedy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the National Deer Alliance (NDA) is calling for an immediate investigation by the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor of the Board of Animal Heath, the agency responsible for oversight of the state's 460 deer and elk farms.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
NSSF reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has published the final lost and stolen in transit rule in the Federal Register. A major problem with this rule is that it requires FFLs to report as lost or stolen in transit firearms that have already left their inventory.
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Last week, legislators from 30 state legislative sportsmen's caucuses and nearly 200 attendees joined the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) and representatives from the hunting and fishing community in Manchester, Vermont for the 12th Annual National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses (NASC) Sportsman-Legislator Summit, to reflect on current issues related to hunting, angling, and fish and wildlife conservation.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
NOAA Fisheries has announced several senior leadership changes that align with the changes they are making to West Coast operations.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has released a statement that leaves little doubt about where he stands when it comes to defense of the Second Amendment right of all citizens.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
The Detroit Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has initiated an ad campaign to encourage the public to report violent firearm related crimes. The message "HELP US HELP YOU- Report Gun Violence" will be displayed on posters and buses running through Flint, Michigan.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
The National Wildlife Refuge Association (NWRA) praised Department of Agriculture and Interior Secretaries Vilsack and Salazar for their announcement directing more than $80 million toward purchasing conservation easements in the recently-established Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area.
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Sportsmen approve of the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to end the public comment period on its Bristol Bay watershed assessment on July 23, as planned, rather than extend the comment period any further.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
In a letter to members of the U.S. Senate, the Western Governors Association announced its support for establishing a program to collect and share royalty revenues from renewable energy development on federal public lands.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced the release of trace information for firearms recovered in Mexico and submitted to ATF for tracing.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The adopted California Fish and Wildlife Strategic Vision (CFWSV) and two accompanying documents can now be viewed at www.vision.ca.gov.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioners unanimously approved a final implementation plan for the merger between Colorado State Parks and the Division of Wildlife at their monthly meeting Thursday.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The U.S. Senate Thursday evening confirmed Daniel Ashe as the latest Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ashe, a career employee of the agency, will assume his duties immediately. Dale Hall, Ducks Unlimited CEO and Director of the FWS from 2005-2009, praised the Senate action, calling Ashe "a strong supporter of wildlife resources, avid outdoorsman and committed conservationist."
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Monday, January 10, 2011
The Colorado Wildlife Commission marked the end of Governor Bill Ritter's term by calling the Governor "the best friend Colorado sportsmen have had for many, many years".
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Governor Martin O'Malley has requested $87 million in federal funding to support the State's natural resources during his annual federal priorities presentation to the Maryland Congressional Delegation on Capitol Hill.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sporting and conservation groups from across Michigan took time away from fall hunting season to gather under the state capitol dome with state lawmakers for the annual "Sportsmen's Day at the Capitol."
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Last night, the U.S. Senate voted to end debate on the nomination of one of the most outspoken animal rights, anti-hunting, and anti- Second Amendment individuals to a high government position. By a 63-35 vote Cass Sunstein's nomination to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs was moved via cloture vote.
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