Pittman-Robertson Act and Wildlife Conservation

(Dislcaimer: here comes a random, unprovoked "rant")

After listening to an episode of Meat Eater (I'm addicted; thanks OB), I was really curious about the dollars that are actually generated from the Pittman-Robertson Act. I've known since college the successes tied to P-R funds, and the whole story around everyone getting on board with it and pushing it into law faster than probably damn near any other legislation in the history of this country (90 days?!?! Does anything even come close to that now? The Affordable Care Act took over a year to pass).

But, the one argument I always see from the anti-hunting crowd is that hunters do not put more money into conservation than them like we say we do.

Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves:

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2013- $522 million
2014- $760.9 million
2015- $808.4 million
2016- $695.1 million

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I have a hard time believing any group is putting more money into conservation than hunters. Truly a magnificient piece of legislation that has made a tremendous impact on wildlife.

But the antihunter will point to a variety of organizations that supposedly contribute more money than DU, NWTF, Delta, etc.

We can use the arguments about management, food, pleasure, etc. for why hunting is important. But you can't out numbers like P-R numbers on any of those reasons. The money we generate by buying hunting shite funds wildlife conservation.

And serious, don't talk about any more podcasts, please...lol. It's all I've been listening to for a month now. It's driving my wife nuts!!