I find how ignorant people can get for example I have been talking about the disaster at Kaibab for years. The reason no one will pick it up is because it’s not there finding to take credit for it and the same goes for EMA.

The truth is obvious to everyone, yet only a handful will respond!

Chad, you need some teeth to put bite in what you say!

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/kaibab.html
http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story1.html
http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story2.html
http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story3.html

Most of the people involved in the environmental movements do it more for the social status than anything else...it's all about belonging....many people are left feeling empty these days, many have turned away from traditional means to give ones self a sense of belonging (family, church, community, etc..) and turn to these groups, hyped in the media they waste their days watching, to fill that void....most I have encountered the last couple weeks remind me of members of a cult, fanatical in their beliefs to a point of being blind to the truth and being detached from reality....scary stuff....

So on point, they do not care if the sportsmans organizations they snub do more for wildlife than those that share their beliefs, it is not about doing good for wildlife...it is about looking good to their social circles and control.....

Every time you answer the question of a child or non hunter and answer it truthfully.
Every time you educate someone and lead by example hopefully a positive one. You are affecting the way someone thinks about Hunting, Shooting, Fishing etc.
As a group you accomplish more.
There is no National Outdoor Education organization s out there, However there are the school districts that allow 4-H, Archery, Shooting and even Hunter Education to be conducted in their schools. It's not much but it's a start.
Hunting Television does not educate or pretend to educate anyone on the benefits of hunting only the taking of trophies and planting very expensive food plots and using stuff you can put together yourselves.

We need shows that show a farmer with deer management issues and crop damage and what happens when proper management is done by a responsible hunter.

More shows like Ducks Unlimited tv that talks about affects of hunting / non hunting and management practices
NWTF has awesome articles on land management.

If I lost you in any of this I appoligize. But if we want to maintain a positive effect on the media this is a way to do it. Used to hunting and fishin were well versed parts of newspapers farmers invited hunters to help manage wildlife to save crops now they fear the irresponsible, the trigger happy etc.

Chad,

Had to chuckle at your joke.

It is a joke? Right?

I find it interesting how 15 goober smooching actors can be the Judas Goats of Mankind! Take Al Gore for example, he flat out refuses to go one on one in a Global Warming debate and he is making millions off of it!!

It’s all a scandal!

Those 15 Actors do favor to the rolls they play in the movies, but in real live they can’t even get their own life right!

15 over inflated egos I say!

I'd be calling up the EMA and asking for it?

Chad, its all at your fingure tips, GO FOR IT!

Chad, I think you've got a great idea. I think getting the message out to the non-hunting public about all of the conservation efforts that are undertaken by hunters or funded by taxes and other fees levied specifically on hunters is vitally important to the long-term protectcion of the hunting tradition.

I don't, however, think approaching EMA is the best way to go about it. I think it safe to assume that EMA would rather advance an anti-hunting message - one of the advisory board members is Defenders of Wildlife one of the organizations that fighting to overturn wolf hunting in the northern rockies. It appears to me that EMA is nothing more than an exercise in green-washing and propoganda by the entertainment industry.

Hunters don't need to engage in green-washing, they are truly agents for conservation. We simply need to build an organization that can present the true facts about hunting in a rational manner and with a media friendly face - Chad, you have my vote to be that spokesman.

Creating such an organization would be a long hard slog. The caffeine from my coffee is starting to kick-in, so excuse me if I get little unrealistic now, but I could see the media reflexively turning to such an organization for the hunter's viewpoint whenever an issue impacting hunting hits the news and lobbying lawmakers on behalf of hunters.

Chad, you've got the platform, I hope you use it.

BRAVO, Bella!

Get those kids off the couch and darken those "light emitting screens" as you put it and into the outdoors!

I agree that there isn't much "reality" in reality TV. How did anyone cmoe up with that idea? What the heck is "reality" about a bevy of girls hanging out with some dude wearing viking horns and a wall clock hanging around his neck. Or anything with Paris Hilton in it....

Well, when I say things in support of hunting there are about 3 people who listen to me . . . Chad has a much larger audience

The 15 Actors I find it interesting how individuals overlook there bipolar life. On screen they are bigger than life and what we like to be like. Yet in personal life the Hollywooders their lives are like train wrecks with everything from alcoholism to drugs to divorce etc.

Like to put Tom Hanks better yet all 15 on a real deserted island and just see how long they lasts. LOL!

lets go for it guys I would say we have the numbers to at least try and form an organization for the same pupose, to show the value and ecological nessecity of hunting and fishing.

I agree ohio hunter: The groups as individuals have alot of sway and by combining their voices they can get the attention of media, legislaters and even non hunters and do it in a positive well versed and politically correct manner.

Also if the groups combined funds and media (most of them have their own magazines, some have tv shows) than other sportsman will be aware of other organizations out their helping to protect their image and show them as conservationist, responsible, educated men, women and kids.