Conservation Groups, Union Sportsmen Call for Water, Outdoor Lands Bill
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The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP), which includes the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), is urging Congress to act now to approve legislation to restore and conserve the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. If you hunt or fish or just enjoy the outdoors, you can help.
With encroaching development, growing population and more private lands, wildlife habitat is shrinking. One way to preserve and grow the amount of land open to hunting and fishing and other outdoor recreation is through the Land and Water Conservation Fund
The TRCP says in the short time remaining for Congress to act this year, it should develop a package of land, water and wildlife legislation, including full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Click here to send a message to your lawmakers supporting an omnibus outdoors land and water bill. Read the rest of this entry »
New Season for Union Member Adventures in ‘Escape to the Wild’
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Illinois Firefighter (IAFF) Greg Curry’s elk-hunting adventure in some of Colorado’s most breathtaking countryside kicks off the fourth season of ”Escape to the Wild” on VERUS Country. The season premiere of the show, which takes union members on once-in-a-lifetime hunting and fishing adventures, will air Sunday, Jan. 3, at 9:30 a.m. EST.
The show is a union-sponsored television series of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP). “Escape to the Wild” is supported by the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), a joint venture of the TRCP and 21 unions to promote conservation and access for hunters and anglers.
While the show chronicles each union member’s outdoor adventure, it also gives viewers a look into the lives of the winners—their struggles, their triumphs and their commitment to their union, families and the outdoors.
New Season for Union-Backed Outdoors Show
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The popular outdoors show, “TRCP’s Life in the Open,” sponsored by unions in the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), begins its fifth season on VERSUS Country Sunday, Oct. 4, at 9 a.m. EDT.
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership’s (TRCP‘s) flagship show’s premier takes us on a Sitka black-tailed deer hunt and salmon fishing trip in the heart of Alaska’s publicly accessible, 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest.
The show explores outdoor adventures and also highlights pressing fish and wildlife conservation issues while venturing to some of the best hunting and fishing destinations that are both accessible and affordable to hardworking American sportsmen.
This season, viewers will learn about stalking Montana’s big bull elk, braving Alaska’s elements and monster salmon and calling in javelina in New Mexico. Other adventures will feature pheasants and bruiser bucks in western Kansas, kudu and hartebeest in Africa, striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay and ducks in California’s famed rice fields.
Visit www.TRCP.tv for a complete schedule, photos and more.
The USA unions providing support for the show are Machinists (IAM), Boilermakers (IBB), Electrical Workers (IBEW), Bricklayers (BAC), Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA), Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) and Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA).
Union Sportsmen: Dedicated Funding Needed to Safeguard Fish and Wildlife
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Union sportsmen see firsthand how climate change has harmed the woods, streams and lakes, even as the rest of us are aware of the planet heating up from reports of shrinking ice shelves to holes in the Earth’s ozone layer.
In a letter to congressional leaders from 20 of the unions in the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and the Union Sportsmen Alliance (USA), the unions write:
Union sportsmen do not need to read reports in the press to know climate change is already affecting the ways they pursue game and fish, the success of their days afield and the timing of their hunting and fishing trips.
The 20 unions urge the leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to include dedicated funding to safeguard fish, wildlife and ecosystems important to sportsmen be in Senate climate change legislation.
Electrical Workers Member Becomes 10,000th Member of Sportsmen’s Alliance
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Big news out of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA). Last month, the group welcomed its 10,000th member. Launched in 2007, the USA is a joint venture of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and 22 unions. The nonpolitical hunting and fishing club is open to union members, retirees and their families.
Martin Reier, a member of Electrical Workers Local 242 from Duluth, Minn., is the USA’s 10,000th member. As a special recognition, Reier received a U.S.-made Beretta 3901 American Citizen shotgun with the USA logo on the receiver. Reier says he learned about the USA at one of his local meetings and was eager to join a club supported by his union.
Once I heard about the USA and all they had to offer, I was ready to sign-up. I think it’s very important for hunters and anglers to belong to organizations, like the USA, that are working to protect their hunting and fishing heritage.
Sportsmen’s Alliance Works to Conserve and Protect Wildlife
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The coalition of union members and environmental groups is growing stronger as both groups push for green jobs and organizations like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council join the drive to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Now you can add another group to the mix—the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA).
For 18 months, the USA has been working to build support within the union movement for preserving our hunting and fishing heritage. Launched in 2007, the USA is a joint venture of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) and 21 unions. The hunting and fishing club is open to union members, retirees and their families.
One of USA’s main goals is to support the TRCP’s longstanding dedication to guaranteeing access for hunters and anglers, conserving the fish and wildlife habitat and increasing funding for conservation.
Join Union Members and ‘Escape to the Wild’
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Chicago Plumbers and Pipe Fitters (UA) member Wes Blankenship kicks of the new season of “Escape to the Wild” on VERSUS Country Jan. 4 as he scales Idaho’s rugged Clearwater Mountains in search of spring black bear.
The outdoors show, “Escape to the Wild,” is the union-sponsored television series of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP). New episodes air each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. (EST). The show rewards members of AFL-CIO unions with a hunting or fishing trip of a lifetime. “Escape to the Wild” is supported by the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), a joint venture of the TRCP and 21 unions to promote conservation and access for hunters and anglers.
Each week, viewers will join host Tom Ackerman in an elaborate scheme to surprise the winner in the most unexpected way. Says Ackerman:
“Escape to the Wild” is about teaming up with deserving winners and taking them around the world to fulfill their dream hunting and fishing adventures. Special people, special places.
