Conservation is just as important as gun rights, according to a poll of sportsmen by the National Wildlife Federation. Nearly half said those two priorities have equal weight. And given a choice between prioritizing oil and gas production or protecting public lands, 35 percent chose the fuel and 49 percent chose the public lands. John Gale with the N-W-F...
Maintaining and improving access to public lands also ranked high on the priority list. N-W-F says millions of acres of public land are surrounded by private land, which discourages or prevents their use.
More than two-thirds of the sportsmen polled said the U-S should work to reduce carbon emissions ... update the nation's mining law, which is 140 years old ... and expand and strengthen the Clean Water Act. The findings don't surprise Gale, who calls sportsmen "the original conservationists."
The U-S Senate is expected to consider the Sportsmen's Act of 2012, a package of 19 bills, as one of the first orders of business after the elections. It focuses on conservation funding and public lands access. The House already passed its version of the legislation in April. Additional poll information: Forty-two percent of respondents said they were Republicans, 32 percent Independents, and 18 percent Democrats.
Maintaining and improving access to public lands also ranked high on the priority list. N-W-F says millions of acres of public land are surrounded by private land, which discourages or prevents their use.
More than two-thirds of the sportsmen polled said the U-S should work to reduce carbon emissions ... update the nation's mining law, which is 140 years old ... and expand and strengthen the Clean Water Act. The findings don't surprise Gale, who calls sportsmen "the original conservationists."
The U-S Senate is expected to consider the Sportsmen's Act of 2012, a package of 19 bills, as one of the first orders of business after the elections. It focuses on conservation funding and public lands access. The House already passed its version of the legislation in April. Additional poll information: Forty-two percent of respondents said they were Republicans, 32 percent Independents, and 18 percent Democrats.
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