"I would start by asking every sportsman to have conversations with their family and among their network of friends to build support for shooting and hunting. Many of us don’t take the time to bring what we love to do into the everyday conversations we have at home, at work or in social settings. Getting our friends and family to try shooting and hunting is the most important first step in bringing shooting and hunting back into the mainstream of American culture. Only be increasing the value of shooting and hunting to all Americans can we ensure the future of shooting, hunting and conservation."

"With the mobilization of sportsmen/women, uniting them as one.  This is the key to change.  Until the fishing and hunting community is recognized as a large and powerful voting block that is an active advocate for their sport, we will have limited power for change."

"Thomas Jefferson said it best: “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Anglers, hunters and fishing and hunting businesses help pay for conservation through license fees, self-imposed manufacturer excise taxes on sporting equipment, direct financial donations and by annually volunteering more time to fish and wildlife restoration efforts than all other groups combined. This support results in multiple benefits to many non-game fish and wildlife species in all 50 states, to the state natural resource agencies, and to the American public in general.  We need to do a better job of telling our story."

"We need to dispel the myth that hunters, trappers and anglers only take game from our lands and waters with no greater public benefit. Seventy-five years ago, the conservation community supported the use of funds from an excise tax on sporting equipment exclusively by state fish and wildlife agencies to professionally manage fish and wildlife populations and provide access for sportsmen and the larger public to enjoy the benefits of this management. Accordingly, these groups produced the American System of Conservation Funding. This user pays-public benefits funding strategy has produced numerous benefits that far exceed our own personal gains, including: abundant fish and wildlife populations, access to public lands and clean waters, improved fish and wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, wetland protection and its associated water filtration and flood retention functions, improved soil and water conservation, shooting ranges, and boating access facilities that are available for the enjoyment of the entirety of the American public – hunters and non-hunters alike."

"Elect a pro-gun President."

"Recognize and increase our sporting traditions with any takings based on sustainability and solid values."

"Inform local sportsmen and women of both local and national issues of importance."

"I’d work toward more pro-sportsman representation at all levels of government, from local right up to federal. You can’t begin to fix big problems without the political will to do so, and that will is sadly missing in many of our leaders."

"Get every hunter and shooter to get two others to become lifelong participants in our sports."

"I would develop a market system that identifies and monetizes the public benefits of natural resource systems, i.e. the ecological services that are provided, such as clean air, clean water, carbon sequestration, and flood control.  In this way, what we treasure would become a genuine component of resource policy decisions."

"I would begin by emphasizing the importance of conservation and outdoor recreation to our economy now, and in the future.  I would make sure that conservation is not defunded as collateral damage in our current “deficit wars.”  I would make sure that some of this money goes to planning for our land and water use in the future so a robust wildlife resource will be conserved in the future to continue to support outdoor recreation and our hunting/fishing heritage."