It will be hard to get all the sportsmen and all the enviros on the same page because the sporties are usually about access and killing things, and the enviros are about protecting areas and animals from destruction, almost always by means other than fishing and/or hunting.

Those "other means" are typically resource extraction or development, both of which are typically Republican supported activities...and lots of sportsmen, especially hunters, tend to be Republican supporters.

It's hard enough for me to understand how hunters and fishers can continually vote for the very people who stand to fukk up the environment you want to hunt and fish in...it would be even harder to find those enviros and sporties on the same page very often.

It happens, and I've been part of it happening quite a few times, just on small scale projects, though, for the most part. It will never happen full scale, imo, so the leadership of the different factions need to agree to disagree on some things, and agree to agree on others, and work on those.

Some groups out there aren't interested in working with others, or aren't interested in working with others on a case by case basis...they won't ever be reached, and in the end will be marginalized by their own ineptitude.

In this world, if you think you can bypass consensus and dictate to the policymakers how it's going to be, then you plain don't think much.

Fish on...

Todd