TRCP News

1. TRCP Honors Sens. Conrad and Wallop, Launches TR150.org to Celebrate T.R.’s 150th Birthday
   
2. Forging Ahead on the Fisheries Front
3. TRCP to Auction No. 1 Bully Bugger Starting Dec. 1
4. TRCP Collaboration With NAGP Helps Conserve Grouse and Hunting Opportunities
5. Help the "We Are Wetlands" Campaign Reach 80,000
6. Future of Colorado Hunting and Fishing at Stake in Roadless Rule
7. Conservationist Tony Dean Dies
   
   
   
   
   

1. TRCP Honors Sens. Conrad and Wallop,
   Launches TR150.org to Celebrate T.R.’s 150th Birthday
   
   
   

   Senator and Mrs. Conrad with TRCP Chairman James D. Range

   The TRCP presented its first annual Sportsmen’s Champion Award to Senator Kent Conrad and recognized former Sen. Malcolm Wallop with the TRCP Lifetime Achievement Award at a celebration of Theodore Roosevelt’s 150th birthday on Oct. 21 in Washington, D.C. Sen. Conrad was in attendance to receive the Sportsmen’s Champion Award, presented by TRCP President/CEO George Cooper. Malcolm Wallop’s daughter, Amy Mann, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her father from TRCP Chairman James D.Range.
   

   www.TR150.org

   As an additional part of the celebration of Theodore Roosevelt’s 150th birthday, the TRCP launched www.TR150.org on Oct. 27, a Web site intended to give visitors a daily dose of conservation inspiration through history and insights into Roosevelt’s life.
   
   For 150 days, the site will post two daily features. “This Day in Conservation History” will highlight significant events that comprise our unique American conservation heritage. And “T.R.ivia” will celebrate the lesser-known aspects of the life of a man who did more to expand our conservation heritage than any other.

   
   
   

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2. Forging Ahead on the Fisheries Front

   An aerial view of the mouth of the Kalmath River. Photo courtesy: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

   World’s Largest Dam Removal Agreement Reached
   
   PacifiCorp, an energy provider in the northwestern United States, recently agreed to remove four dams on California’s Klamath River, opening up more than 300 miles of habitat for the Klamath’s salmon and steelhead populations and eliminating water quality problems caused by the dams’ reservoirs. The Klamath River was once the nation’s third-largest salmon producer, but the dams’ presence decreased productivity of the fisheries and reduced angling opportunities.
   
   In August 2006, the American Sportfishing Association, the TRCP and almost a dozen TRCP partner organizations requested that PacifiCorp remove the dams. This action was prompted by PacifiCorp's upcoming request for renewal of dam permits. The previous renewal occured before most environmental laws were enacted.
   
   The Agreement in Principle, released on Nov. 13, is intended to guide the development of a final settlement agreement in June 2009 and includes provisions to remove PacifiCorp’s four main dams on the Kalamath in 2020, a century after the first dam was constructed.
   
   “We are very pleased with PacifiCorp’s agreement to remove the dams from the Klamath River,” said ASA Vice President Gordon Robertson. “This historic agreement will allow salmon and steelhead populations to once again prosper benefiting fishing communities that depend on healthy fish populations as well as recreational anglers.”
   
   

   TRCP Fisheries Initiative Manager Jared Mott

   TRCP Releases Angler Guide, Hires Fisheries Manager
   
   

   To help further our work for and with recreational anglers, the TRCP has released a recreational angler guide and hired Jared Mott as our new fisheries initiative manager. The recreational angler guide recruits anglers to become engaged in our efforts to better conserve marine fisheries, while offering educational information on gathering marine fisheries data.
   
   As the TRCP fisheries initiative manager, Jared will be working with a diverse array of partners promoting policies and organizing grassroots support to benefit recreational anglers.  Jared grew up hunting and fishing with his parents in Mississippi and came to Washington to organize sportsmen around wildlife and climate change.  He enjoys D.C. but heads home to Mississippi to visit old friends and stomping grounds whenever he can.  In addition to spending considerable time on the water chasing whatever’s biting in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, Jared is also an avid waterfowl, turkey hunter and bow hunter.
   
   Contact Jared at jmott@trcp.org.

   
   
   
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3. TRCP to Auction No. 1 Bully Bugger Starting Dec. 1

The Bully Bugger

In honor of the 150th birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, famed guide and fly tyer Craig Mathews and the TRCP have introduced a new twist on the timeless Woolly Bugger - the "Bully Bugger." The Bully Bugger even has spectacles reminiscent of those of our 26th president.

Mathews has tied a limited edition of only 150 Bully Buggers. Of these, 149 Bully Buggers have been mounted in hand-made wooden shadowboxes and are available for partners who donate $150 or more to the TRCP. "Bully Bugger No. 1," the first in the series, will be auctioned online starting on Dec. 1. More information regarding the specifics of the auction will be coming soon.

Visit our Web site to make a donation and get your own Bully Bugger.

The TRCP 2009 calendar, Teddy’s Vision, Our Mission: Hunting and Fishing in America, is our gift to partners who donate $25 or more.

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4. TRCP Collaboration With NAGP Helps Conserve Grouse and Hunting Opportunities


Prized by sportsmen and birders, sage grouse and other native grouse species are getting a boost from teamwork by the TRCP and North American Grouse Partnership. Over the past year, the two groups have collaborated on efforts to conserve grouse populations and hunting opportunities in the face of poorly managed public-lands energy development. And for sage grouse, presently being weighed for listing under the Endangered Species Act, the TRCP-NAGP partnership is helping to actualize some on-the-ground changes.

The two groups recently voiced support of a Bureau of Land Management decision in Wyoming to expand protection around greater sage grouse mating areas (“leks”) from 2 miles to 3 miles. Leks form the center of activity for native prairie grouse species, including sage grouse, and provide habitat critical to grouse survival. Research has demonstrated that most of the birds’ nesting activity occurs within three miles of a lek.

The action by the Buffalo, Wyo., BLM was challenged by energy companies citing that the increased protections are unwarranted and not based on science. Yet recent studies revealed that current BLM protections, which place specific limits human activities within two miles of leks, are inadequate for maintaining grouse populations. Some BLM offices have acknowledged that sage grouse need more safeguards during energy development and are trying to implement changes.

“The North American Grouse Partnership is a vital ally in the TRCP’s work with American hunters and anglers,” said Tom Franklin, TRCP senior vice president. “Our mutual efforts on behalf of wildlife will help build solutions to conservation challenges such as those affecting sage grouse and will strengthen the voice of sportsmen in the ongoing debate over responsible management of our shared natural resources.”

Last summer, the two organizations commended BLM efforts to conserve sage grouse habitat in northeastern Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The measures affect approximately 1 million acres of sage grouse habitat and include limits on the density of oil and gas wells. And in June 2008, the TRCP and NAGP filed a formal request with the Secretary of the Interior to undertake conservation measures for sage grouse habitats on all public lands administered by the BLM. The Interior Department has not yet responded to the TRCP-NAGP request.

A threatened or endangered listing would affect sage grouse hunters first and foremost due to the possible elimination or restriction of hunting opportunities – actions already proposed due to decreases in bird numbers. It also would affect farming and ranching operations across the West where sage grouse occupy public and private lands.

“Half of the remaining sage brush habitat in this country lies on BLM-managed lands,” said NAGP Executive Director Ralph Rogers. “The agency’s ability to contribute – or fail to contribute – to sage grouse conservation is unprecedented and unparalleled.

“The NAGP works to promote the conservation of grouse and the habitats necessary for their survival and reproduction,” Rogers continued. “We are pleased to further this mission through our partnership with the TRCP.”

Millions of sage grouse and other native grouse once populated the Great Plains and shrub steppes of the western United States; however, the species’ abundance and distribution have declined precipitously. Energy development can have wide-ranging impacts on habitat use and survival of numerous game species, including sage grouse. Recent research on sage grouse has identified population losses with energy development activities. In particular, activity too close to sage grouse leks can result in permanent displacement.

In the light of federal efforts to conserve grouse populations and the repercussions of an endangered listing, sportsmen are justifiably asking, “What’s next?” The TRCP will continue to work with the NAGP to regulate energy development in important grouse habitat across the Rocky Mountain West. The federal government likewise must undertake additional and wider-ranging conservation measures if we hope to sustain secure populations of sage grouse into the long-term future.

Want to join other hunters and anglers working for responsible development?

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5. Help the "We Are Wetlands" Campaign Reach 80,000

www.wearewetlands.org.

Our push to collect 80,000 petition signatures calling on the president to help restore wetlands protections continues to march forward. Launched in spring 2008, the "We Are Wetlands" campaign seeks to educate all Americans on the impacts that wetlands and clean water have on all our lives. Not only are wetlands vital to the many fish and wildlife species that sportsmen cherish, they also perform essential societal functions such as providing clean drinking water, supplying flood control and hurricane buffers, offering erosion control and more.

Alarmingly, up to 20 million acres of our nation’s wetlands and waters that once were federally protected under the Clean Water Act are now at risk due to recent Supreme Court decisions that undermine these protections. What’s more, America continues to lose 80,000 acres of our natural wetlands each and every year. This is why the TRCP has undertaken this campaign – and why we need your support now.

Please help us reach the finish line. If you have not signed yet, please do so today by going to our campaign Web site, www.WeAreWetlands.org – it only takes a few seconds. Also please consider sharing this important message with your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.

For more information about We Are Wetlands, please contact Geoff Mullins at gmullins@trcp.org.

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6. Future of Hunting and Fishing at Stake in Colorado Roadless Rule


Some of the roadless area in Arapahoe National Forest. Photo credit: John Gale

The Colorado roadless rule will determine the future of more than 4 million acres of our public lands and how we’ll enjoy them for generations to come. Sportsmen are particularly concerned about how the rule will affect the natural resources that make Colorado a destination for outdoors enthusiasts from across the country – and home to thousands of hunters and anglers who enjoy high-quality, close-to-home outdoor experiences.

“More than just a sport, hobby or pastime, hunting deer and elk in the mountains and canyons of the West is part of my life that seems to defy explanation,” says Mike Duplan, a sportsman from Silverthorne, Colo. “I would have an easier time explaining why I breathe.”

Duplan and other Colorado hunters and anglers are featured in the new TRCP report, “Backcountry Bounty: Colorado,” which outlines why national forest roadless areas, or backcountry, are important to fish, wildlife and the future of our outdoor traditions. With the draft Colorado roadless rule complete and a public-comment period closed, the state and a planning team must begin crafting meaningful revisions to the rule that will benefit fish and wildlife – while paying close attention to more than 150,000 public comments regarding the management of these important public lands.

As written, the draft plan allows road building, timber cutting, and other development to a degree that

Two anglers spend the day out backcountry fishing in Colorado. Photo credit: Kurt Brewer

could significantly alter important big-game and trout habitat and, therefore, affect hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing and other activities. To sustain secure habitat, strong game populations and uphold our hunting and angling traditions, the Colorado roadless rule should incorporate additional development restrictions, especially restrictions on road building.

“I dream that I will be able to take my children to places like the Platte River and Tarryall Mountains and catch native trout,” says avid fly fisher Benjamin Miller, an engineering student at the University of Colorado-Boulder. “For me, ripping through forests to build roads near my beloved trout streams would be like tearing down my childhood home.”

Roadless area watersheds generally have higher water quality and important spawning habitat, both key in sustaining native fisheries. And Colorado has nearly 300,000 elk and 600,000 mule deer, more of each than any other state. Supporting fish and game populations and sustaining hunting and fishing would be difficult, if not impossible, without public lands in their present condition.

Gov. Ritter and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources’ Mike King have stated their willingness to change the draft rule to uphold the backcountry character of Colorado’s roadless areas. The Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Council, or RACNAC, a panel tasked with developing recommendations for resolving problems in the rule, is stepping forward with its own valuable advice.

Now it’s up to the state and the U.S. Forest Service to abide by the views of citizens, counsel of the RACNAC and information from the Division of Wildlife – and support a hunting and fishing heritage found nowhere else in the world.

Read Backcountry Bounty: Colorado and learn more about why Centennial State sportsmen value national forest roadless areas.

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7. In Memoriam: Conservationist Tony Dean


Tony Dean
Tony Dean, the renowned sportsman, outdoors radio and television broadcaster and conservation advocate, passed away on Oct. 19, 2008, due to complications from an appendectomy.

Dean hosted and produced the television show Tony Dean Outdoors for many years. He also produced the daily radio show "Dakota Backroads" for nearly two decades and wrote columns for the Argus Leader, the daily newspaper of Sioux Falls, S.D. Dean’s programs received hundreds of regional and national awards.

Dean was deeply committed to conservation, as well as hunting and fishing. He supported candidates based on their stands on the issue of conservation, and he was criticized for his support of various candidates, including Tim Johnson and Barack Obama. "I always appreciated his advocacy on behalf of conservation and sportsmen alike. He understood the right balance. His advice and passion will be missed," Johnson said. Darlene DeChandt, Dean’s wife, indicated that one of the last things Dean had done was to film a series of commercials for Obama's campaign, noting that Dean would have served on the transition team in the event of an Obama victory.

President-elect Barack Obama issued the following statement regarding the Dean's passing: "Tony Dean was committed to his fellow sportsmen and determined to protect our precious habitats - and unafraid to voice his opinions on both. I was honored to have his endorsement, and as president, I will continue to fight for those causes he held dear. His passing is a tremendous loss for sportsmen and conservationists alike. Michelle, the Bidens and I extend our thoughts and prayers to Tony's family and friends.

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A big thanks to everyone who sent in an answers to last month's T.R.ivia question. Congratulations go to our October winner, Jeffrey Buth. He was the first person to correctly identify T.R.'s first relative to settle in America: Claus Martenszen Van Rosenvelt, who immigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam (now New York) in the 1640s. We are sending Jeffrey a TRCP hat. Congratulations, Jeffrey.

Email your answer to this month's question to bblodgett@trcp.org for your chance to win.

Updates from TRCP Partner Organizations -
News from the National Conservation Community

American Fisheries Society Submit your papers to the new AFS journal: Marine and Coastal Fisheries. More>>
American Sportfishing Association 2008 Sportfishing Summit brings industry leaders together in Denver, Colo. More>>
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Register for the 2009 North American Conservation Education Conference. More>>
BASS/ESPN Outdoors Read Chris Horton’s take on the Supreme Court's decision not to hear the Parm vs. Shumate case in Louisiana. More>>
Bonefish and Tarpon Unlimited Learn more about the BTU strategic alliance program. More>>
Coastal Conservation Association Plans for an open-loop liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility 63 miles south of Mobile have been shelved.  More>>
Delta Waterfowl Delta Waterfowl has hired longtime marketing executive Pat Hudak as its vice president of membership and marketing. More>>
Ducks Unlimited Check out the DU waterfowl ID gallery. More>>
Federation of Fly Fishers Read the FFF’s October Conservation Update. More>>
International Game Fish Association Learn more about the IGFA conservation efforts. More>>
International Hunter Education Association Learn more about online hunter education classes, in both English and Spanish. More>>
Izaak Walton League of America Read about how a former IWLA president is working for conservation in Minnesota. More>>
Mule Deer Foundation Register for the 2009 National Convention next February in Salt Lake City, Utah. More>>
The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy encourages green gift options for the 2008 holiday season.  More>>
North American Grouse Partnership Learn more about the Conservation in Action program. More>>
Pheasants Forever First-ever Pheasants Forever/DNR Mentor Youth Hunt was a success.  More>>
Quail Forever Read QF’s quail hunting forecast. More>>
Quail Unlimited Mark Twain Quail Unlimited chapter supports local high school shooting teams. More>>
Quality Deer Management Association QDMA member Al Brothers is up for Budweiser’s Conservationist of the Year award. More>>
Trout Unlimited Two founders of Trout Unlimited were inducted into the 2008 Fly Fishing Hall of Fame at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.  More>>
Trust for Public Land According to TPL conservation won big at the ballot on Election Day. More>>
Whitetails Unlimited To help curb the crime of poaching on a national level, an anti-poaching sign that is suitable for use anywhere in the country is available from Whitetails Unlimited. More>>
Wildlife Management Institute The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reinstated protections for wolves in the Northern Rockies following the July decision by a federal court to place an injunction on the delisting.  More>>
The Wildlife Society The 15th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, the largest gathering of wildlife professionals on the North American continent, took place Nov. 8 – 12, in Miami, Fla. More>>

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Featured Conservation Leader

George Lea, Public Lands Foundation

George Lea, member of the TRCP policy council

Can you please tell us a bit about the Public Lands Foundation?

The Public Lands Foundation (PLF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit national conservation organization incorporated in Virginia in 1987. The PLF mission is to keep the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands in the public’s hands and to foster the proper use, protection and management of the BLM administered lands. It is an advocate organization to keep policy makers and the general public aware of what is happening to the public lands. All PLF members, most of who are retired former employees of BLM, and its board of directors, made up of PLF members, serve without compensation as volunteers. The PLF receives further guidance from a conservation advisory board, the members of which represent 13 national conservation organizations. Primarily membership dues finance PLF. The foundation publishes a newsletter, The Public Lands Monitor, four times a year and grants annual awards to outstanding BLM professional employees. For more information visit the PLF Web site at www.publicland.org.

Who got you involved with hunting and/or fishing? When?

As a child my father took me fishing, sparking the beginning of my interest in the out of doors. I went on to obtain a bachelor's of science degree in forestry with a minor in wildlife management from the University of Idaho. Birding is my life-long hobby.

What is your most memorable experience afield?
I guess my most memorable experience was my first deer. I was recently married and attending the University of Idaho and with little financial help, food was important to my new wife and me. It was a whitetail I shot on Moscow Mountain, and the venison made it possible for us to get through the winter.

What do you think are our most pressing conservation issues today?

In my view the most pressing conservation issue is the disconnection of our youth from the out of doors. The majority of our children do not feel comfortable outside and are more comfortable in front of their computers playing computer games. As a result, they do not understand the natural environment, the need to protect and conserve natural resources. Our conservation leaders must come from our youth, and the next generation must have a good understanding of the importance of professional management of our natural resources. Our country needs ways and programs to get our youth out of doors into the natural environment.

What is your approach to facing conservation challenges?

The first step must be understanding the truth about an issue: get the facts as best we can; understand who is involved and what their interest is in the issue; understand the financial aspects and impacts involved; and finally develop the available options before settling on a solution to the conservation issue.

Why are you involved with the TRCP?

I have been very impressed with recent TRCP legal actions to bring balance to the development of energy resources on public lands. This is something the Public Lands Foundation has wanted to do but lacked the financial resources. I look to the TRCP to be concerned with the conservation of the broad spectrum of natural resources. There are too few organizations with this broad interest today.

Also, by being on the policy council, I may be called upon to make input to the direction of the TRCP’s programs, exposing me to other organizations’ approaches to conservation issues, a good learning experience for me and the Public Lands Foundation.

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Bookshelf

Angling the World, by Roy Tanami

In Angling the World, Tanami examines the ways in which traveling anglers can help save not only wild fish but also the wild places they inhabit. Written with wit and verve and interspersed with fascinating tidbits of historical and geographical lore, Angling the World is a passport to a world of extraordinary angling adventure. In this work Tanami strives to convey the full awe and wonderment, enthusiasm and reflection of a consummate storyteller who also knows how to capture his catch on film. For more information, click here.

Long out of print, Out Home is the first published collection of essays by naturalist and conservationist John Madson. Written between 1961 and 1977 for such venues as Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Audubon and Guns and Ammo, the 21 essays and one poem in this classic volume focus on game and nongame animals and the people who love them and their outdoor world. Madson writes of hunting and wildlife management, the tricks of whitetail and cottontail, the bewildering interactions of pheasants with their harsh winter world, the cliff-nesting geese of the Missouri River, biscuits and gravy and stories shared around campfires with friends and family, and the great seasonal migrations of geese and cranes. Writing always with the knowledge that he was witnessing the end of the wilderness, of the outdoor home that nourished him, Madson brings a brilliant energy to these tough, unsentimental tales. Editor Michael McIntosh, one of the nation’s foremost experts on shotguns, has written a short introduction to this first paperback edition of these ageless wilderness tales.

For more information, click here.

Photo Gallery

Check out How Your Fellow TRCP Partners Fared this Season

Karin Benson of Gordon, Wis., with the mule deer she shot near Edgerton, Wyo., on the first day of her hunt this October.

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Roosevelt Reflections

T.R. on Wilderness
by Ken Barrett

In 1893, T.R. said we needed to “preserve large tracts of wilderness for the skill and exercise of the hunter, whether he is or is not a man of means.”

The cover of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Throughout his adult life, Roosevelt was a strong and tireless proponent of wild places and wilderness. In Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, he wrote, “My eldest boy killed his first buck just before he was 14 and his first moose - a big bull with horns which spread 56 inches - just before he was 17. Both were killed in the wilderness, in the great north woods, on trips sufficiently hard to afford some test of endurance and skill.”

He went on to write, “Big private preserves may serve a useful purpose if managed with such judgment and kindliness that the good will of the neighborhood is secured; but the sport in them somehow seems to have lost its savor, even though they may be large enough to give the chance of testing a man’s woodcraft no less than his marksmanship.”

More than 100 years after Roosevelt wrote these prophetic words, we still are grappling with roadless rules and wilderness designations on many of our public lands. Ninety-eight percent of all the land in the lower 48 states has roads. Keeping 2 percent road-free for the critters would not seem unreasonable to Teddy, or those who share his values. And to that I’m sure T.R. would say, “Bully!”

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Special Feature

If You Hit It, You Go Through Hell to Find It
By Brett Graham, Member of TRCP's Union Sportsmen's Alliance

My eight uncles taught me to hunt. All of them were good to me, but Bob was the one with the best spots to hunt, and he was always in charge. After safety, Bob’s no. 1 rule was “if you knock it down, you go through hell’s half-acre to find it.” I remember watching him spend what seemed like forever searching for a dove in grass taller than he was. After he found it, I asked him why he didn't give up, and he replied, “'cause it was the right thing to do.” Sadly, we lost Bob a few years back, but his lesson has stuck with me over the years.

That’s why I own Chesapeake Bay retrievers, which have a no-quit attitude when looking for downed game, but more importantly, why I taught my son Logan to hunt just as Bob taught me. This past season, I saw how ingrained those lessons are in my son.

In January, I was guiding a father and son from Texas along a creek that had been holding some mallards. We had taken some mallards and were almost done walking the creek when we saw geese beginning to fly over us. I told everyone to get hidden and wait; if we didn't shoot the first flock, the flocks coming behind them would start to lower on their approach, giving us at least one good shot. As a flock came over in good shooting range, I told my clients to take them.

They knocked down two, one of which sailed a couple hundred yards to the opposite side of the creek and landed in nasty cover. I didn't get a good line on it, and the dog couldn't see where it fell. I looked over to find my son taking off his Drake pullover, boots, bibs and jeans until he was standing in just his gym shorts and a t-shirt. He put his boots back on and told me to let him get across and around the cover before I sent the dog, so he would have a shot if the dog pushed the goose out the back. Then he waded into the water amidst an air temperature of 17 degrees.

Everything went just as planned. I sent the dog, the goose got clear of the cover, and Logan made a good shot. While we were waiting for Logan to return, my client told me that seeing my son go through such effort just to find a goose was worth the eight hours they driven to hunt with us.

When my boy got back across, I walked up to him with tears in my eyes and said, “Son, I am proud of you, and I know Bob would be, too, because that's exactly what he would have done.”

The Union Sportsmen's Alliance (USA) is a one-of-a-kind, hunting and fishing association of the TRCP and its trade union partners, exclusively for conservation-minded union members, retirees and their families that hunt, fish and appreciate the outdoors.

Visit the USA Web site to learn more.

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