FIGHTING FOR WHAT ’ S RIGHT
IN WASHINGTON , D . C .
HOLDING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE
THE STRUGGLE : Picking up where the Obama administration left off , the Biden White House has only emboldened those opposed to hunting and trapping . With the federal government as an ally in many cases , the world ’ s most powerful animalextremist groups have pushed for gains they hope to hold even in the event of an administration change in 2024 .
OUR ANSWER : While most wildlife management takes place at the state level , the federal government oversees endangered species and migratory birds , as well as co-managing millions of acres of public lands . We will continue to ensure the sportsmen ’ s voice is heard in these arenas , while working to proactively interject benchmark changes , such as we did in the Natural Resources Management Act of 2019 with the “ Open Until Closed ” provision that requires lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and U . S . Forest Service to be open for hunting , fishing and recreational shooting unless specifically closed for cause .
PROTECTING ACCESS TO AMMO : We rattled cages last year when we revealed the Biden administration was secretly negotiating with the Center for Biological Diversity to implement a lead-ammunition and -fishing-tackle ban on wildlife refuges . Some called us alarmists or accused of us of playing politics . We weren ’ t ! Everything we said came true – including a quick-strike expansion of the “ hunt-fish rule ” to lands beyond the National Wildlife Refuge System . To close 2022 , a group petitioned the administration to implement a similar ban on all lands controlled by the National Parks Service .
NEVER-ENDING WOLF WARS : For nearly two decades we ’ ve fought for state management of wolves in Minnesota , Michigan and Wisconsin . We ’ ve delisted them from the Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) three times , only to have judges relist them on procedural claims . We supported the Trump administration ’ s delisting
12 SPORTSMEN ’ S ALLIANCE 2022 ANNUAL REPORT