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TRCP announces ambitious policy agenda for 2010
Highlighting a range of issues pivotal to sportsmen-conservationists, the TRCP has released its 2010 Conservation Policy Agenda. Developed in concert with the TRCP’s partners, which include national hunting, fishing and conservation organizations, labor unions and grassroots sportsmen, the 2010 Conservation Policy Agenda will enable the TRCP to advance policy solutions on natural resource management issues of common concern and will provide focus to the group’s efforts in the year to come.
“We presently find ourselves in a time that is challenging yet exciting for American conservation policy and the sporting traditions that rely on responsible management of our natural resources,” said Jim Martin, chairman of the TRCP board of directors. “The TRCP will continue to pursue consensus-based, common-sense solutions to these challenges for the good of these resources and in the spirit pioneered by our namesake and standard bearer, Theodore Roosevelt.”
The TRCP 2010 Conservation Policy Agenda features the following issues:
* Ensuring responsible energy development on federal public lands
* Forging a strong and competitive Conservation Reserve Program
* Securing sportsmen’s access through timely implementation of Open Fields
* Promoting conscientious conservation of inventoried roadless areas
* Instituting common-sense reform of the General Mining Law of 1872
* Strengthening recreational marine fisheries management and angling opportunities
* Assuring dedicated funding to avoid and mitigate the effects of climate change on fish and wildlife
* Advocating legislation for wetlands conservation and clean water restoration
“The TRCP has taken great strides in recent years toward reestablishing sportsmen as leaders in natural resource policymaking in the United States,” Martin continued. “As America’s acknowledged first conservationists, hunters and anglers are both proficient at and accustomed to shouldering this role.”
“Theodore Roosevelt stated, ‘It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it,’” said TRCP Senior Vice President Tom Franklin. “The TRCP looks forward to continuing to work closely with the Obama administration to forge solutions to our most pressing conservation issues – and persevere in our mission to guarantee all Americans high-quality places to hunt and fish – by focusing our efforts where we stand to contribute the most to the future of our shared resources and invaluable outdoor heritage.”
Click here to learn more about the priorities on year’s agenda.
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