Richard Tafoya
Feb 25th, 2008, 12:28 AM
The Laconia NH Citizen:
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/GJNEWS02/575861517/-1/CITNEWS
A number of Lakes Region bait and hunting shop owners have signed on to a nationwide campaign that seeks to urge members of Congress to enact legislation aimed a slowing global warming.
More than two dozen local hunting, fishing and snowmobile clubs and related businesses based in New Hampshire have joined 670 organizations in sending a joint letter to Washington, D.C., urging action on global warming through the National Wildlife Federation.
The groups took out a full-page ad in USA Today demanding action to address climate change.
The sportsmen are calling for comprehensive climate change legislation that cuts global warming by two percent per year through a cap-and-trade system and includes dedicated funding for fish and wildlife conservation and restoration.
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An NWF release says hunting and fishing have been pillars of New Hampshire's economic prosperity, with 258,000 people — residents and non-residents — heading outdoors in New Hampshire in 2006 to spend $286 million on equipment and other trip-related costs.
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"Climate change is a major threat to the future of our wildlife and we're running out of time to do something about it," said Eric Orff, a retired wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game and an outreach consultant for the National Wildlife Federation.
"We've spent a century fighting to protect wildlife, wild places and our natural heritage. We will not sit by and do nothing while climate change threatens to wipe it all out," said Orff.
http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/GJNEWS02/575861517/-1/CITNEWS
A number of Lakes Region bait and hunting shop owners have signed on to a nationwide campaign that seeks to urge members of Congress to enact legislation aimed a slowing global warming.
More than two dozen local hunting, fishing and snowmobile clubs and related businesses based in New Hampshire have joined 670 organizations in sending a joint letter to Washington, D.C., urging action on global warming through the National Wildlife Federation.
The groups took out a full-page ad in USA Today demanding action to address climate change.
The sportsmen are calling for comprehensive climate change legislation that cuts global warming by two percent per year through a cap-and-trade system and includes dedicated funding for fish and wildlife conservation and restoration.
...
An NWF release says hunting and fishing have been pillars of New Hampshire's economic prosperity, with 258,000 people — residents and non-residents — heading outdoors in New Hampshire in 2006 to spend $286 million on equipment and other trip-related costs.
...
"Climate change is a major threat to the future of our wildlife and we're running out of time to do something about it," said Eric Orff, a retired wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game and an outreach consultant for the National Wildlife Federation.
"We've spent a century fighting to protect wildlife, wild places and our natural heritage. We will not sit by and do nothing while climate change threatens to wipe it all out," said Orff.