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Deer Farming - Politicians Seek to Make Your Public Wildlife Private PDF Print E-mail

UPDATE - Representative Frank Niceley has filed a NEW deer farming bill HB3164 which is written more broadly than last year's bill. The bill is listed below, as well as new information that Chronic Wasting Disease, originally in farmed deer in Missouri, has now been found in WILD white-tailed deer harvest within 2 miles of the farmed-deer facility.

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Politicians Seek to Politicize TWRA & Wildlife Management PDF Print E-mail
The Tennessee General Assembly is back in session, and our system of wildlife management is under attack. A small number of House members are working hard to politicize wildlife management by abolishing the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission and replacing it with an individual commissioner or weakening it through restructuring. The Commission plays a vital role in Tennessee fish and wildlife management from approving the TWRA's budget to the setting hunting and fishing seasons and bag limits based on the biological recommendations of the TWRA.
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Sportsmen United PDF Print E-mail

Over the years, the voices of sportsmen and women have been the most effective and consistent tool to ensure the future of wildlife, healthy land and forests and clean water. This heritage and our many successes is why we created the TWF Camouflage & Casting Coalition. 
 
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Wild Hogs - Tennessee's Single Most Destructive Animal PDF Print E-mail

If you read the papers, one of the largest wildlife stories in Tennessee during 2011 was the change in management philosophy and regulations by TWRA concerning Tennessee's most destructive animal, the wild (also referred to as 'feral') hog. While headlines across the state read that TWRA was "making hunting of wild hogs illegal", what wasn't reported was that the opportunity to kill these exotic pests was actually expanded.

(TWF's paper on this issue is HERE and other great information is located on a special website which can be accessed HERE.) 

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Meet Your Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission PDF Print E-mail

The TWRC is a fourteen member citizen-based commission charged with the governance of the TWRA. Their primary statutory duties include the following:
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TWF Camo & Casting Coalition States Concerns Regarding Commercial Fishing PDF Print E-mail

The members of the Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s Camouflage and Casting Coalition oppose the recently created Commercial Fishing Advisory Council’s following recommendations: Expanding commercial fishing to new waters, studying the viability of commercial fishing in all statewide waters, and removing the 34” size limit on catfish.
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Why We Need a Coalition PDF Print E-mail
There are nearly 38 million Americans who hunt and fish. That is more sportsmen than people who receive social security retirement benefits. If all sportsmen had voted in the 2000 presidential election, they would have equaled 36% of the entire vote.
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About the Coalition PDF Print E-mail
The purpose of the Coalition is to organize sportsmen and women across Tennessee and keep them informed of legislative activity affecting our wildlife management or outdoor recreation interests.
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