Top Hunting and Fishing Groups To Release New Study on Threats of Climate Change to U.S. Fish and Game Habitat

Monday, April 7, 2008

(Paul Bledsoe)

                                                                                             

Top Hunting and Fishing Groups To Release New Study on Threats of Climate Change to U.S. Fish and Game Habitat

 

Press Conference on Capitol Hill with Chairman John Dingell

 

(Washington, D.C.) – The Wildlife Management Institute joined by eight of the nation’s leading hunting and fishing membership organizations, today released a new report – Seasons’ End; Global Warming’s Threat to Hunting and Fishing – detailing the predicted impacts of climate change on the fish and wildlife habitat and the future of hunting and fishing in the United States.  The group also is announcing a new website, http://www.seasonsend.org/, which will provide updated information on the impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife and what can be done to address this challenge.

 

The report was compiled and edited by the Wildlife Management Institute, based on analysis done by Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited, BASS/ESPN Outdoors, Izaak Walton League of America, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Coastal Conservation Association, American Sportfishing Association, and Pheasants Forever.  The report is funded by the Bipartisan Policy Center, whose projects include the National Commission on Energy Policy. 

 

Who:  Top US Hunting and Fishing Organizations and Rep. John Dingell

 

What:  Press Conference to Release New Report on Climate Change Impacts on Hunting and Fishing

 

When: Thursday, April 10, 11:30am -12:30pm

 

Where: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2218, Washington, DC

 

About the BPC:

Former Senate Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole and Mitchell formed the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to develop and promote solutions that can attract the public support and political momentum to achieve real progress. The BPC will act as an incubator for policy efforts that engage top political figures, advocates, academics and business leaders in the art of principled compromise. For more information please visit our website: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/

 

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