Press RoomPress ReleaseFor Immediate Release
PARTNERSHIP TO PURSUE SOLUTION-ORIENTED CONSERVATIONThe Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Is Organized To Restore Conservation As A National Priority, Extend TR's Legacy Into 21st Century NEWS RELEASE
Contact: George Cooper
(202) 508-3421 The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) is a new and fundamentally different organization that will bring together unprecedented advocacy, communications and grassroots capabilities needed to help our partners achieve conservation victories that benefit America's sportsmen and women. The TRCP's mission is clear: "To ensure that America's lands will always provide clean water, healthy habitat, bountiful fish and wildlife populations, and opportunities to fish, hunt, and enjoy the outdoors." "More than 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt established a vision that placed the conservation and responsible stewardship of America's vast natural resources among the highest national priorities," says James D. Range, chairman of the TRCP's board. "The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is looking forward to working with America's anglers, hunters, and conservationists around a renewed vision to safeguard President Roosevelt's conservation legacy in the 21st Century." That vision seeks to reestablish as a political priority what TR called our "national duty" to protect wild places and scarce fish, wildlife, and plants. It embraces clean water, clean air, healthy fish and wildlife habitats, and the powerful need for people to enjoy those wild places. The TRCP has more than 75,000 individual members and more than 1,000 organizations involved as partners including some of the nation's leading conservation groups. "Whether for the management of National Wildlife Refuges in this 100th year of their existence, ensuring that wildlife and fish are treated carefully in the development of the nation's energy resources, partnering with private landowners to produce more wildlife under the Farm Bill, or managing our National Forests, the hunters and anglers of America need their voices to be heard," said Rollin Sparrowe, president of the Wildlife Management Institute. "TRCP will inform hunters and anglers about these issues and more, and help them take an active role in conserving fish and wildlife to assure a future for the outdoor activities we all love. This is a movement whose time has come!" "We seek nothing less than to return the conservation and responsible stewardship of our nation's natural resources to the top of this nation's priorities," says James Mosher, a TRCP Board member and conservation director for the Izaak Walton League. "The Partnership will work with colleagues in the conservation community to pursue solutions to select resource issues that will yield real results benefiting fish and wildlife and the interests of America's sportsmen and women." "Some of America's greatest sportfish, such as Atlantic salmon and western cutthroat trout, are in trouble and need more help from conservation-minded sportsmen and women," says Steve Moyer, Trout Unlimited's conservation director. "TRCP will provide a strong and unified voice for fish before Congress and state and federal agencies, giving these resources the clout they need." |