Sportsmen Present Path Forward for National Monument Proposals

By Justin Stakes

New report offers roadmap for future monuments that represent hunting, angling values

Washington, DC -(AmmoLand.com)- A coalition of sportsmen’s groups and businesses is presenting a new approach for gaining hunter and angler support for national monuments proposed under the Antiquities Act.

Where appropriate and with the backing of local sportsmen, national monuments can help conserve public landscapes important for hunting and fishing.

In a new report, “National Monuments: A Sportsmen’s Perspective,” 28 groups and businesses, including Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited, outline a series of tenets for creating national monuments that are aligned with the intent of the Antiquities Act. Also featured in the report are profiles of existing national monuments where sportsmen played a supportive founding role.

“National monument designations offer a means to conserve large landscapes important to fish and wildlife and valued by sportsmen,” said Land Tawney, president and CEO of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. “Numerous monuments are open to hunting and fishing, with recent designations – such as Berryessa-Snow Mountain in California and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico – specifying that sportsmen …Read the Rest

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