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9/21/1998
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Board of Commissioners
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I$O Years of Sportsman-Sup <br /> <br />18~ 1872 1887 1900 1903 1934 <br /> <br />New York Sportsmen's Club Formed <br />to enforce game laws and protect <br />game from market hunting and <br />poaching. First of many conservation- <br />minded sportsmen's groups. <br /> <br />Boone & Crockett Club Formed by <br />Teddy Roosevelt and 100 other <br />prominent and influential sportsmen, <br />to fight for the preservation of big <br />game species in North America. <br /> <br />Pelican Island, FL, the first unit - <br />National Wildlife Refuge Syste~, <br />established by President Th~odor <br />Roosevelt. Today, these refuge <br />encompass nearly 40 million a~._. <br /> <br />Yellowstone National Park Created <br />by Congress. With the strong <br />support of sportsmen, it becomes the <br />first of many wild areas set aside for <br />recreation and wildlife protection. <br /> <br />Lacy Act Passed, again with the <br />strong support of sportsmen, ban- <br />ning all commerce in illegally-taken <br />game. Its enforcement soon puts an <br />end to market hunting in the U.S. <br /> <br />Migrator' <br />Passed re=r. <br />'to purchas~ <br />support ~ <br />and prot <br /> <br />The First Environmentalists Are Still The Best <br /> <br />In 1844, a good fifty years before the <br />term "conservation" was coined, the <br />New York Sportsmen's Club was <br />formed to protect and preserve <br />declining game species. This marked <br />the beginning of a period of intense <br />conservation activity by hunters and <br />anglers. They would soon establish <br />hundreds of similar organizations <br />across the nation. <br /> <br />Led by President Theodore Roosevelt, <br />sportsmen proposed and supported <br />the first laws to conserve wildlife and <br />protect habitat. In 1900, Roosevelt <br />dramatically strengthened the federal <br />wildlife program by establishing the <br />first wildlife refuges and the <br />national forest system. <br /> <br />Not content with these initial efforts, <br />in 1937, hunters and anglers pro- <br />posed laws to fund the newly-estab- <br />lished state fish and wildlife agen- <br />cies. Their effbrts resulted in the <br />Pittman-Robertson Act, which pro- <br />vided money fbr wildlife from an <br /> <br />Placement of wood duck nesting boxes is <br />one of many important conservation <br />activities financed by hunters and anglers. <br /> <br />excise tax on sporting arms and <br />ammunition. Today, this 11% tax <br />provides some $180 million each <br />year to conservation. Additional <br />excise taxes-again establishect with <br />the strong support of sportsmen- <br />were later placed on handguns and <br /> <br />equipment used in sportfishing and <br />archery. Still more conservation rev- <br />enue comes from the sale of hunting <br />and fishing licenses, duck scamps, tags <br />and permits. <br /> <br />The sportsman's contributions to <br />conservation now total $20 billion <br />dollars-and they will contribute <br />another $10,000 in the time it takes <br />to read this pamphlet. <br /> <br />Wildlife agencies also receive some <br />funding from state taxpayers but <br />each dollar that comes from the <br />states' general funds is matched by <br />over nine dollars from sportsmen. <br /> <br />The money has been well spent: since <br />the early 1900s, state wildlife agen- <br />cies have returned many species to <br />their past abundlince (see back page). <br /> <br />As has been the ca,re fi)r many years, the <br />purchase q'a hunting or fishing license <br />remains the most effi, ctive contribution to <br />comervation that anyone can make. <br /> <br /> <br />
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