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This morning, sportsmen-friendly legislators upheld Governor Heineman’s veto of Nebraska L 671, and, in so doing, protected the future of successful science-based natural resource management, while also upholding the integrity of Nebraska’s state constitution.
March 13, 2014 (Washington, DC) – Congress is moving forward quickly to revise the federal act that governs our nation’s marine resources. The sportfishing and boating industries, along with recreational saltwater anglers, are stepping up efforts to ensure that their economic, social and conservation priorities are well represented.
Michigan’s fishing, hunting and ORV licenses will change beginning March 1, 2014. The new license structure – authorized by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder in 2013 – makes buying a license easier and provides vital funding to improve outdoor recreation opportunities for anglers, hunters, trappers and ORV riders.
During the 2014 NAGA General Membership meeting, members voted to offer a new Associate Member level. This new level will allow NAGA members to sign up friends, family members, employees, hunting enthusiast and industry associates as an NAGA Associate Member. The cost for each Associate Member is $25.00 annually. Each Associate Member will receive an NAGA News subscription for 6 issues.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) is pleased to report that its Where To Shoot mobile app has topped 100,000 downloads. The app, which at one point hit No. 4 on the Apple App Store’s list of free sports apps, has been a hit with target shooters and gun owners.
Available for iOS and Android devices, Where To Shoot locates shooting ranges near you.
“Despite a growing population and the need for management, animal rights and anti-hunting activists don’t want to let the professional wildlife managers do their job,” said Nick Pinizzotto, USSA’s president and CEO. “Somehow they are of the mistaken belief that they know how to better manage Nebraska’s wildlife populations from their offices in Washington D.C.”
The bill, LB 671 sponsored by Senator Ernie Chambers (D-Omaha), would ban mountain lion hunting, threatening not only livestock but public safety also. Senator Chambers has also announced his intentions to oppose every proposal of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission until the mountain lion season is abolished.
Tracking the Capitols is a source of legislation currently being tracked by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation state policy team to keep you informed of the most pertinent and timely state legislation affecting hunting, recreational fishing and shooting and trapping and other conservation issues. Inclusion in Tracking the Capitols does not necessarily constitute support or opposition to legislation by CSF and/or the CSF States Program. The bills noted in this email represent only a fraction of the legislation that CSF’s States Program is monitoring on a day-to-day basis.
Federal wildlife regulators have endorsed a voluntary conservation plan for the lesser prairie chicken drafted by five range states.
Remember the original Star Trek series with self-opening doors, flip phone- like communicators, talking computers and workplace tablets? Science fiction is now or is rapidly becoming reality. “Beam me up, Scottie” transportation, however, currently remains unavailable. When Steve Jobs designed the iStore to provide programs for use on Apple devices like the iPhone, iPod and … Continued
It is hard to believe that in 1976 there were no PCs (personal computers), cell phones or internet. There were computers- big, heavy, bulky, whirling room-filling machines that worked very slowly. Today our hand held smart phones carry more memory than all the computing ability of NASA during the lunar landing!
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