RE: USFWS misuse of sportsmens conservation funds

[Jewelee at Cluster Businesses]

What was your source on this information?
Also, in my experience, mentioning anything to Patty Murray
about hunting will get you her "That's not the way I see it" reply.

-Jewelee

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Mix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:29 AM
To: Washington Flyfishers (E-mail)
Subject: USFWS misuse of sportsmens conservation funds


Not sure if this is true or not.....but if it is it's fairly alarming.

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Subject: USFWS misuse of sportsmens conservation funds


The U.S. Senate will soon begin to work on S.2609, The Wildlife and Sport
Fish Restoration Programs Improvement Act of 2000. This piece of legislation

was crafted to stop the USFWS from using funds from the Pittman-Robertson
Wildlife Restoration Act, instituted in 1937 as an excise tax on firearms,
and related shooting equipment, and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish
Restoration Act of 1950 which taxed fishing related items.
...
 The funds generated by these taxes now equal
1/3
of the USFWS total budget and they have been using them illegally.

...

If you would like to see these funds used to actually benefit fish & game
agencies then I suggest you send an e-mail to Sen. Patty Murray at:

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