Author Archives: Chris
SFW & MDF Raise Funds for Utah State Parks & Recreation Wildlife Programs
Salt Lake City, Utah – Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife (SFW) and the Mule Deer Foundation presented a check for $283,500 to the Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation for wildlife habitat improvement and management work on Antelope Island State Park which is located in the Great Salt Lake. The funds were raised from the auction of a Mule Deer tag and a California Bighorn Sheep tag to be hunted on the Island this fall. The tags were auctioned last February at the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo (WHCE) held in Salt Lake City. The Mule Deer Tag sold for…
What is a Western Wilderness Hunt Really Worth?
If more sportsmen and sportsmen groups don’t engage in the wolf wars, then western states’ big game hunting will become a mere shadow of what it has been for the past 50 years. Some sportsmen are starting to realize this fact, and I will share what we are beginning to do about it, and what more needs to be done in the wolf wars. Interwoven in this story about my son’s Wyoming wilderness deer hunt in 2009, where we saw the dramatic negative effects of wolves up close and personal. I will share with you why I have fought so…
