Boone and Crockett Club: Follow the Money

The Department of the Interior and Secretary Zinke yesterday announced the distribution of $1.1 billion to state fish and wildlife agencies for fish, wildlife and habitat conservation projects. Sportsmen, through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Acts,…

provided the money. "Some people, even if they support the idea of wildlife conservation, may actually be opposed to hunting and fishing, but there is no denying that sportsmen foot the bill for the majority of conservation actions in this country," said Ben B. Hollingsworth Jr., president of the Boone and Crockett Club.