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land. Very nice folks, great and styles of hun ng, it al‐
place to visit and I’ll definitely most ALWAYS circles to money,
go again … however: (info not conserva on!
needed—In New Zealand So what’s the solu on when
there are no hun ng laws, no
the rest of the world is against
tags, so no income for the
what you know is the best tool
country) when talking to them
for maintaining our wild king‐
about adding a tag fee for non‐
It’s late on a Monday night and dom?
residents to create a conserva‐
I must admit, I am a li le red. 1—We MUST create a group of
on fund to stop the Govern‐
Travel this year has been con‐ like minded folks who can be
ment eradica ng all the Stag
nuous and mee ng and called to arms when needed to
and Tar (An animal without
gree ng folks all over the show social media and poli ‐
worth is worthless), they came
world. I was in Washington cians a force —Ac on: Create
out of their chairs with NO NO
mee ng with our Na onal Pol‐ “I Am A conserva onist” or‐
NO, animals belong to the
i cians, was in New Zealand ganiza on—not to compete
people and there are no laws
right a er the ChristChurch with conserva on groups but
or tags or anything. Lets say
shoo ng, just enjoying the lo‐ to give the world an engine to
this caught me be surprise.
cal people and discussing inform and teach.
hun ng, and was in Louisiana While living on social media
2—Educate, Educate, Educate,
trying to not melt in the heat land I have been in MANY dis‐
and I don’t mean like minded
while hun ng trophy gators, cussions, have seen so many
folks. I mean the 90% of Amer‐
oh, and of course all over an hun ng messages get
ica that live in ci es. Ac on:
America at Events and conser‐ picked up by 10’s of thousands
Expand our Educa on pro‐
va on Banquets. of uninformed people in
grams and help other chapters
hours, and have watched the
All of this wasn’t just for implement them.
media spout out whatever
hun ng, it was seeing what is
they want without concern of More on both of these in this
missing in the conserva on
impact. GRRRRRRRRRR copy of ... Safari Trails ...
effort and how the current
Network Larry
world is viewing it. In talking with poli cians on
editor@oklahomasta onsci.org
topics from land use, to taxes
Let me start with New Zea‐
