PWR Blog: Sportsmen’s Calls are Critical to Compel Senators to Protect Hunting on Public Land

Posted on June 14, 2012

In March and April, bi-partisan majorities in the House Natural Resources Committee and the full U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4089, the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012. The most significant fishing, hunting, and shooting legislation passed in the last 15 years, the bill included two primary features: (1) confirmation of federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulings that the agency does not have authority to ban lead in ammunition or fishing gear and (2) game changing new law establishing that Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service lands (totaling more than 700 million acres of public lands) are open to fishing, hunting, and shooting unless and until the agencies take specific action to impose closures or restrictions. And closures and restrictions must be necessary and based on sound science and evidence.

Read the full blog here- http://protectwhatsright.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/sportsmens-calls-are-critical-to-compel-senators-to-protect-hunting-on-public-land/#more-287

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