Conservation at the Shot Show

Conservation at the Shot Show

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Whit Fosburgh is president and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and recently attended a conservation roundtable discussion with 35 representatives of hunting and fishing non-profits, retailers, and outdoor publications at the SHOT show in Las Vegas. “A much bigger picture of collaboration, responsibility and an openness to change that will undoubtedly come so the SHOT Show, talk about your experiences and how you were received. We try to get to the SHOT Show every year. It is quite the event. 60,000 people go through all the manufacturers and retailers showing new product. It can get overwhelming but it is also easy to get caught up in all the cool new gear. What we try to do is make sure that everybody remembers that every time you sell a license, buy a gun, by your ammo you are supporting conservation. Our community, the hunting and fishing community has an obligation to stay engaged in that but that is not enough. Just to sell a license or sell a gun, we need to collect the power of the whole community to make sure that we have the conservation opportunities tomorrow that previous generations have had. What is conservation in your mind, what do you mean by conservation? Conservation, I think back the way that Roosevelt felt which was you want to leave things better than you found them and I think when you look at his term as the president, he really created the public lands network, he stopped the market hunting and laid the groundwork for what we consider, what really I think the world considers, the finest model of management found anywhere in this world, the North American model.
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