With passage of the Target Practice Marksmanship Training and Support Act (Tarmarc) of 2019, states can now apply a larger percent of their annual Wildlife Restoration (WR) funds to range development, improvement, expansion, operations and marketing. Several multi-state grant-funded resources have become available since then to help states and shooting range NGOs understand where new … Read more
Effective fish and wildlife management requires meaningful interaction with all segments of society, not just the people who buy hunting and fishing licenses. States’ mission statements often reflect their broad responsibilities on behalf of all residents; however, significant segments of the public may not be aware of their state fish and wildlife agency at all, … Read more
The primary objective of State Fish and Wildlife Agency (SFWA) Hunter Education/Safety (HE) programs is to promote safe, responsible, and ethical hunting practices. In current practice, the preparedness of HE students to achieve these behaviors is determined by using a minimal passing grade on the final examination, typically given at the end of a course. … Read more
State agencies need volunteers and mentors to successfully field many fishing related education R3 Recruit Retail Reactivate and conservation projects. With increasing options available to the public to volunteer recruiting and retaining volunteers has become more difficult threatening states ability to staff programs such as fishing derbies and many other hands on R3 programs. To … Read more
The Northeast Fish and Wildlife Diversity Technical Committee of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is charged by the Directors and Administrators of the 14 Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agency jurisdictions in the United States with developing and maintaining a list of Northeast Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need (RSGCN) that … Read more
Given staff limitations, state agencies rely heavily on volunteers and mentors to successfully field many education, Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation (R3), and conservation projects. However, as more and more options become available for people willing to donate time, states are finding it increasingly more difficult to recruit and retain volunteers and mentors, threatening their ability … Read more
Many organizations within the outdoor industry, from state wildlife agencies and conservation groups, to manufacturers, media and sportsmen’s clubs, have invested substantial time, money and effort into recruiting new, retaining current, and reactivating lapsed hunters over the past 15 years. This practice has been named; “R3”, which stands for; Recruit, Retain, Reactivate. “R3” has a … Read more
The National Fish Habitat Partnership is a unique aquatic habitat conservation delivery program that has been using a cooperative, non-regulatory, and science-guided approach since 2006 to change the condition of fisheries through 20 Fish Habitat Partnerships across the entire country. This approach was codified by Congress in the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act 2020. To provide … Read more
In 2008, a plan emerged from the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy entitled Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation. Among the recommendations in the plan was an action to, “Create a Hunting and Shooting Heritage Foundation Similar to the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.” The Council to Advance Hunting and the … Read more
This project aims to boost engagement and support for state-regulated trapping among the public and wildlife professionals through a dynamic educational video, multiple video “shorts,” and several professional development workshops. Educational Video: The primary video will replace the outdated one currently used in Trapping Matters workshops. The old video, while impactful over the past 25+ … Read more
Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a globally distributed, highly infectious morbillivirus affecting numerous mammalian species. In the United States, many domestic and wild carnivores are susceptible to CDV, including important furbearer species such as the raccoon (Procyon lotor), gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) and coyote (Canis latrans). Neurologic disease caused by CDV … Read more
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (Association) established its Legal Strategy program in 2014 with the goal of building awareness of the constitutional, statutory, and jurisprudential sources of state authority to manage wildlife, to create opportunities for students and practitioners of natural resources law to learn about state management and the conservation successes of … Read more
