Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council Meets, Joined by Two Cabinet Secretaries

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Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council Meets, Joined by Two Cabinet Secretaries

November 21, 2019 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Yesterday, the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council (HSSCC) held a meeting to discuss pressing issues facing the hunting and shooting sports community, and were joined by the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, and other senior officials from the Departments of the Interior (DOI) and Agriculture (USDA).

The HSSCC, which consists of 18 full-time members and 10 alternate members representing the nation's top sporting-conservation groups, develops and provides recommendations to the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to promote and advance hunting and the shooting sports. Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) President Jeff Crane serves as Council Chairman.

"As Chairman of the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council, I would like to thank Secretary Bernhardt and Perdue as well as the other agency staff for attending the HSSCC meeting yesterday," said Crane. "Their support does not go unnoticed in our community, and we are grateful that they consistently demonstrate and uphold their personal and professional commitment to America's sportsmen and women."

To date, the Council has submitted nearly 20 recommendations to DOI and USDA on topics including wildlife diseases, recreational shooting policies on federally owned public lands, implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill, and many other issues that impact sportsmen and women. A few of the top policy priories discussed during yesterday's meeting include:

Implementation of Secretarial Orders 3347, 3356, and 3362, including the activities of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Hunt/Fish Chiefs
Qualified Volunteers to reduce excess ungulate populations on National Park Service Units
Wetland and grassland easements
2018 Farm Bill implementation
Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA)
Recreational shooting policy within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, through Crane's Chairmanship, will continue to work with DOI and USDA to continue advancing sound conservation policies and to increase public access opportunities for America's sportsmen and women.

The next HSSCC meeting, which will likely take place in Spring 2020, will be published in the Federal Register.

Jeff Crane, Eva Shockey and other members of the Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council (HSSCC) convened yesterday in Washington D.C. to discuss issues and foster the interests of the sportsmen's community.

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Since 1989, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) has maintained a singleness of purpose that has guided the organization to become the most respected and trusted sportsmen's organization in the political arena. CSF's mission is to work with Congress, governors, and state legislatures to protect and advance hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping. The unique and collective force of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC), the Governors Sportsmen's Caucus (GSC) and the National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses (NASC), working closely with CSF, and with the support of major hunting, angling, recreational shooting and trapping organizations, serves as an unprecedented network of pro-sportsmen elected officials that advance the interests of America's hunters and anglers.

Working with Congress, governors and state legislatures to protect and advance hunting,

angling, recreational shooting and trapping.

For more information on the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation go to congressionalsportsmen.org.