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Raffle offers deer hunt with ‘modern-day Teddy Roosevelt’ Donald Trump Jr.
A sports hunting advocacy group is offering the chance to hunt deer with Donald Trump Jr., whom the group calls a “modern-day Teddy Roosevelt.”For $10 per raffle ticket, people can purchase th…
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I had never heard of this non-profit until today, but a couple of my non hunting friends pointed them my way, asking my thoughts about the group auctioning off a hunt with Trump Jr.
From their Mission Statement:
"Hunter Nation is committed to keeping our public lands public, and making sure they are open and accessible for multiple uses, including hunting. However, we will take this concept even further by working to ensure that habitat conditions on the hundreds of millions of acres of our Federal public lands are improved. Many lands are covered with old decadent trees that lead to unnecessary wild fires. This dangerous condition exists because previous Administrations allowed land management policy to be dictated by certain environmental groups and decisions were made based on emotion not facts. Due to the election of President Trump, and the appointment of Ryan Zinke as the Secretary of the Interior, this failed policy has been scrapped and replaced with sound land and water management policy. Hunter Nation will continue to support these improved policies, including large scale habitat restoration efforts which will reduce devastating fires, increase forage and allow for long term sustained healthy populations of elk, deer, moose, bighorn sheep, antelope, bison and mountain goats on our great public lands."
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"Hunter Nation is committed to support laws and policies that restore as much land and wildlife management authority back to State Fish and Game Agencies. This ensures that local sportsmen’s interests are considered and protected by experts in their own state and not some bureaucrat in Washington DC. We love these lands, water and wildlife more than anyone. If hunters unite as one LARGE Hunter Nation we will become a powerful voice to effectuate pro-hunting policy and legislation both locally and nationally!"
The groups Ceo is Mark DeYoung, who left Vista Outdoors, though its been reported that he was "pushed" more then left. He now sits as a member of the Interior Department’s International Wildlife Conservation Council (IWCC). Looking at their "Advisory Board" membership includes all-stars Jason Chaffetz and Ted Nugent, former Chief Officer for Koch funded “Americans For Prosperity” (AFP)" Luke Hilgemann and failed Kansas Secretary of State and vocal "birther" Kris Kobach, among others.
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MEET THE TEAM Hunter Nation is led by America's greatest Hunters and Patriots Our Mission is to preserve and protect our nation's hunting heritage and the traditions associated with hunting as a way of life. We are committed to unifying all hunters and creating a nationwide voice to defend our...
hunternation.org
Even a few hunting industry celebrities like Jim Shockey, Craig Morgan and Michael Waddell.
If any group masquerades about being hunters, while having other intentions in mind, ala "Green Decoy" this certainly seems a good example.
From what i have seen Donald Trump Jr has good intentions when it comes to hunting/conservation though with little power to get anything done, or sound guidance to point him in the right direction, should he want to go it. Seeing that he is being politically courted by the far Right, I'm not sure he would veer to far away from his father, even though their relationship is far from healthy.
To call Jr. a "modern day Roosevelt" and a "leading expert in the field of conservation" is laughable.
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exists because previous Administrations allowed land management policy to be dictated by certain environmental groups and decisions were made based on emotion not facts. Due to the election of President Trump, and the appointment of Ryan Zinke as the Secretary of the Interior, this failed policy has been scrapped and replaced with sound land and water management policy. Hunter Nation will continue to support these improved policies, including large scale habitat restoration efforts which will reduce devastating fires, increase forage and allow for long term sustained healthy populations of elk, deer, moose, bighorn sheep, antelope, bison and mountain goats on our great public lands."
