In recent years science-denying activist organizations have targeted game commissions in their attempt to destroy hunting. Paramount to their plan is the theory of “rewilding,” which removes hunters from the landscape and allows predators to “control” populations of ungulates and other prey species. It’s a “hands off,” preservationist view of wildlife management that overlooks man’s undeniable impact upon the ecosystems of North America. It’s a child-like fantasy that ignores science and history in favor of ideology and unproven promises with an inconsistent and unsustainable funding model.
By petitioning game commissions, these radicals only need to sway around a dozen commissioners rather than entire legislative bodies. Worse still, they are actively attempting to infiltrate these governing bodies – as we’ve seen in Washington and Colorado – to severely restrict management across the board or end entire hunting seasons. Even states with stringent requirements to serve aren’t immune to this new lobbying effort – activists are simply attempting to pass legislation eliminating the requirements or by creating a new supervisory board that oversees their decisions. As seasons for bears, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats and wolves are regulated out of existence, ungulate herds and other prey species bear the brunt of increased predation, the likes of which necessitate a reduction in tags, permits and harvest for hunters – and the funding they bring to the wildlife-management table.
Our Game Commission Work
Washington
- Exposing Washington’s Corrupt Commissioners: All the Evidence!
- Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation Argues Before Washington Supreme Court
- VICTORY! Judge Declares Washington Commissioner Violated Law
- Game Commission Meets to Discuss Extreme New Direction
- Extremists Attack Washington Bear, Lion Hunting with New Petitions
- Sportsmen’s Alliance Comments on Illicit New ‘Conservation Policy’
Kentucky
- Bill to Give Wildlife Management Power to State Ag Commissioner Defeated
- Political Hijinks at Play as Kentucky Power Grab Continues
- Kentucky Sportsmen Ignored Again by Senate: Take Action!
- Committee Ignores Sportsmen, Passes Power Grab of Wildlife Management
- Zombie Bill to Hobble Fish & Wildlife Department Returns: Action Needed!
- Kentucky Bill Gives Wildlife Management Authority to Ag Commissioner
Vermont
- Bill Destroying Fish and Game Board Defeated
- Animal Extremists Want to Control Vermont’s Wildlife Management
- Wildlife Management Bill Amended, but Still Unacceptable
- Vermont Sportsmen Stop Anti-Hunting Commission Takeover
- Anti-Hunters Make Third Attempted to Undermine Game Commission
- Vermont Bill Attacks Bear Hunting, Fish and Game Commission
New Hampshire
- NOT DEAD YET! Bill Allowing Anti-Hunters on Fish and Game Commission
- Hearing for Bill Opening Fish and Game Commission to Anti-Hunters
- New Hampshire Bill Opens Door for Anti-Hunters on Fish and Game Commission
- New Hampshire 2020 Session Ends, Killing Game Commission “Reform”
- Fish and Game Commission Approves Bobcat Season
- Leave New Hampshire Wildlife Management to the Professionals
More Commission Issues
- Sportsmen’s Alliance Sues Colorado Wildlife Commissioners
- Tennessee Passes Stronger Fish and Game Commission Requirements
- Colorado Set to Confirm Anti-Hunters to Game Commission
- VICTORY! California Game Commission Rejects HSUS Bear Hunting Petition
- VICTORY! Nevada Commission Votes to Uphold Bear Hunting with Hounds
- New Mexico Land Commissioner Bans Hunting, Trapping on Public Lands
