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Vol. III, Issue 3
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| March 2009 |
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News | Partner Updates | T.R.ivia | Photo of the Month | Featured Conservation Leader | Bookshelf | Roosevelt Reflection
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The TRCP Remembers Jim Range |
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The TRCP and the entire hunting, fishing and conservation community came together to mourn the passing of TRCP co-founder and chairman of the board, James D. Range. On a snowy day in the District of Columbia, a group of his family, friends and colleagues gathered at the Boat House at Fletcher’s Cove for a service in honor of Jim, who passed away after a battle with kidney cancer on January 20. (visit jimrange.com, a memorial website devoted to Jim)...READ MORE |
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| The Mule Deer Foundation broke fundraising records at its national convention earlier this month. More>> | |
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| The Nature Conservancy commends Chairman Boxer for the release of new Climate change principles. More>> | |
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| Learn about the birds that the North American Grouse Partnership protects. More>> | |
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| Pheasant Fest draws in over 20,000 people in Madison, Wisc. More>> | |
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| New Illinois governor makes big moves for conservation. More>> | |
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| Sign up for the 20th annual QU National Sporting Clays Tournament. More>> | |
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| Read the February 2009 issue of Quality Whitetails. More>> | |
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| Stream protection legislation advances in Wyoming. More>> | |
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| The TPL helps add more than 2,200 acres of to the protected Elk Springs area in New Mexico. More>> | |
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| Whitetail Watch goes national to help curb poaching. More>> | |
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| Kentucky launches a bid to enhance bobwhite quail population on public land. More>> | |
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| Read the most recent issue of The Wildlife Society's newsletter, The Wildlifer. More>> | |
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Congratulations to last month's winner Katie who correctly answered that the answer was this. Send your answer to this months question to: brianm@trcp.org |
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Take Action! Sportsmen's Support on Mining Law Reform Critical
In a move that sportsmen have reason to support, Congress is reconsidering revisions to the most archaic natural-resouce legislation, the General Mining Law of 1872...READ MORE |
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TRCP Works With Partners to Help Habitat Within Stimulus
The Sttimulus Bill, went through a quick and controversial approval over the past few weeks, and the end result features great projects for fish and wildlife...READ MORE |
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Recent Federal Actions on Energy Lauded by Sportsmen
It’s been a busy month on the Western energy development front, with the federal government rendering decisions of particular importance to American sportsmen...READ MORE |
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Anglers Introduce New Principles for Offshore Energy Development
Tthe Angling 4 Oceans coalition released new principles to help guide the committee’s decisions on energy development to ensure recreational anglers’ needs are met...READ MORE |
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TRCP Calls on Congress to Pass Crucial Public Lands Bill
Following the Senate's passage of The Omnibus Public Land Management Act, the TRCP and 33 of its partners sent a letter the House urging them to pass the bill...READ MORE |
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TRCP Asks Companies and Groups to Bank on Backcountry
TRCP has launched “Banking on the Backcountry,” a campaign uniting hunting and angling groups and businesses in support of backcountry conservation...READ MORE |
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TRCP Wins Sporting Classic's Sporting Heritage Award
As part of their 2008 Awards of Excellence, Sporting Classics awarded the TRCP with its Sporting Heritage award at the SHOT Show this past January...READ MORE |
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TRCP Welcomes a New Face
The TRCP western lands team recently added a new voice. Steve Belinda, associate director for science and policy, and his wife, Kate, welcomed a baby boy, Jackson Earl, on November 21...READ MORE |
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| Tim Zink of Alexandria, Va. caught this striper. To see more photos from this month and submit your photos, click here. |
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The Greatest Fishing Misadventures is a book that is good. It's worth picking up. Click here for more info |
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Paving Paradise is a good book. It is worth picking up. Click here for more info |
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| The AFS news blog keeps you up to date on the latest happenings within the fishing community. More>> | |
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| The ASA is looking for supports to take action in ensuring the Consumer Product Safety Act represents anglers' needs. More>> | |
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| AFWA joins a coalition to create the American Wind Wildlife Institution. More>> | |
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| New York BASS chapters are fighting invansive species and stocking largemouths. More>> | |
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| The BTT lauds the Bahamas with creating a marine protected area to promote the importance of catch and release fishing. More>> | |
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| CCA-funded study reveals economic reality for Gulf grouper. More>> | |
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| Delta Waterfowl expands its efforts in Alberta to help increase mallard numbers in the Pacific and Central flyways. More>> | |
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| DU celebrates its 72nd birthday. More>> | |
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| Become an FFF-certified fly casting instructor. More>> | |
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| The IGFA launches a new North Pacific Coast Grand Slam club. More>> | |
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| Learn how you can become a hunter's education instructor. More>> | |
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| The IWLA announces its legislative priorities for 2009. More>> | |
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Featured Conservation Leader |
| Every month, we profile an individual who is doing great things for conservation. Whether they're a head of a company or an everyday outdoorsman, they all are working hard with the TRCP to help guarantee that you'll always have a place to hunt and fish. |
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Steve Walker
Pocatello, Idaho
Mechanical Engineer, big-game hunter, Idaho roadless rule advocate |
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Who got you involved with hunting and/or fishing? When?
My parents and grandparents all were, or are, ardent sportsmen.
What is your most memorable experience afield?
I expect everyone has either a big-rack story or the fish that got away. However, I can unequivocally state that getting thrown out of the raft while floating the Snake River was the most memorable day of my life, in fact, almost the termination of it. It was our second run and everything looked perfect when we lined up on Skull Rock, suddenly the raft swung sideways, and I was airborne. A moment later, I was pulled under. I didn’t think I would ever surface, and when I did I was half drowned. I thought my troubles were over because the raft was right below me, however, I shot by the raft, bounced over rocks, and flew through Class IV rapids for about a mile. If running the rapids in a raft is exciting, try it wearing only a life preserver. When extracted, I was hypothermic, half drowned, shaking violently and could barely walk--a real lesson in mortality...READ MORE |
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Theodore Roosevelt's Epic Cougar Hunt
by Ken Barrett |
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In January of 1901, then Vice President-elect of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, went on a 5-week mountain lion hunt near Meeker, Colo., with his companions Phillip Stewart and Gerald Webb. Their guide was a man named John Goff, a noted lion hunter.
Stewart and Webb left after two weeks, but the always-enthusiastic Roosevelt stayed an additional three, relishing the chase with Goff’s hounds across the stark winter landscape of northwestern Colorado
The group killed 14 mountain lions and 10 bobcats--including a huge male that Roosevelt killed, which reportedly weighed 227 pounds and was 8-feet long. It held the number one spot in the Boone & Crockett Record Book for many years. True to his life-long interest in natural history and science, T.R. sent the skulls of all two-dozen cats to his friend Dr. Hart Merriam, who was the first person to suggest to Teddy that he take his famed African safari. He then sent the skulls to the Biological Survey in Washington, D.C.
While the group’s total kill may seem excessive by today’s standards, northwestern Colorado was still a wild and sparsely settled place in 1901. The state continued paying bounties on mountain lions well into the 1960s before the cougar was reclassified as a game animal. |
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