Around the States: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, IOTR, Pennsylvania, Washington
Alabama: SCI Eastern States and Local Liaison Bee Frederick attended the Alabama Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus breakfast last week where he interacted with elected officials, state agency personnel, and partner sportsmen’s organizations on various hunting related issues. Pictured: Bee Frederick with State Representative Danny Crawford Colorado: SB24-131, as currently written, proposes to restricts hunters from carrying or possessing firearms
Federal: USFICA Passes Committee 42-7
On Wednesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a markup on several bills, including H.R. 6727, to establish the United States Foundation for International Conservation to promote long-term management of protected and conserved areas. This bill creates a public/private funded effort to drive $1 billion towards international conservation over the next 5 years. The funds
UK Trophy Ban Advances to the House of Lords
After running out of time for further consideration in the UK House of Lords last year, a bill that would prohibit hunting trophy imports of all CITES-listed species was reproposed. The bill had a second reading and vote in the House of Commons last Friday. Although relatively few Members of Parliament (out of the 650 total) attended,
SCI and SCI California Coalition Oppose Catalina Island Conservancy Attempt to Eradicate Mule Deer
Safari Club International (SCI) and SCI California Coalition staunchly oppose the Catalina Island Conservancy’s unscientific proposal to eradicate the mule deer population from the Island. Both organizations are advocating for reasonable alternatives, such as an expanded program of legal, regulated hunting, that would balance public enjoyment of wildlife with harvest opportunities for lean, organic sources
Around the States: Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Delaware: Sunday hunting for game birds continues to move forward in the First State after House Bill 271 advanced in the Senate Environment, Energy and Transportation Committee last Tuesday. SCI Eastern States and Local Liaison Bee Frederick testified in support of the bill and joined several in state and national sportsmen’s organizations advocating for the repeal
Sako Ups Their Game
There are a few adjectives that can be used to describe Finnish-made Sako rifles, but if you were to choose well designed, well made, accurate and reliable, you’d get no argument from me.
South Pacific
The South Pacific holds three primary hunting destinations: Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. There could be more. Papua New Guinea has been on-again, off-again. Indonesia, with 17,000 islands, has awesome potential but, despite many attempts, no outfitter has successfully waded through the murky politics.
SCI Joins with African Communities in Opposition to NY Trophy Importation Bill
New York legislators have resurrected attempts to restrict the legal import of harvested African species from the countries with the largest populations of these animals in the world—and who rely on these species to support their well-managed conservation programs. Senate bill 3302, the “Big Five African Trophies Act,” would ban in the State of New York
Around the States: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Wisconsin
Delaware: SCI issued a HAAC and a letter of support for House Bill 271 and the expansion of Sunday hunting of game birds in the state. The bill, which passed unanimously out of the house, will be heard on Wednesday, March 13 in the Senate Environment, Energy, and Transportation Committee. Kansas/Missouri: SCI Western State and Local Liaison
Federal: Committee Hearings
On Wednesday, March 6, the House Subcommittee on Waters, Wildlife, and Fisheries held a legislative hearing on H.R. 7408, the America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act (AWHCA). This legislation, sponsored by House Resources Committee Chairman and former SCI Legislator of the Year Bruce Westerman, invests $300 million to empower states to enact their wildlife action plans, and creates