One Year after Election, BHA Measures Trump Administration

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

MISSOULA, Mont. -(Ammoland.com)- One year after the 2016 presidential election, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is launching a website that considers natural resource-related policy decisions from the Trump administration in light of promises by President Trump and other administration officials to honor the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s greatest sportsman-conservationist leader.

The BHA website, What Would Theodore Roosevelt Do?, compares a suite of actions by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to the philosophy, attitudes and accomplishments of Roosevelt himself.

Visitors to the site can respond to these actions – good and bad – by tweeting to cabinet officials, writing letters to their local newspapers and signing a petition urging the administration to uphold Roosevelt’s legacy. whatwouldTRdo.org will be updated regularly to help citizens address subsequent activities impacting public lands.

“As our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt remained committed to safeguarding public lands and waters and stopping special interests from developing and privatizing the places he treasured,” said BHA President and CEO Land Tawney. “When President Trump was elected, sportsmen had high hopes that he would be, in …Read the Rest

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