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We are glad to announce the finishing of our pilot episode for The Hunting Life!  Pro Staffer Taylor Rather takes her first ever black bear in Manitoba, you don't want to miss it!

You can check it out here: http://www.mevio.com/episode/193606/Pilot+Show

We at Huntinglife.com would like to thank all of you for the support! We couldn't have done it without you!

If you are interested in sponsoring the show or advertising with Huntinglife.com, please send us a message and we would be glad to give you more information.

Thank you,

Huntinglife.com Pro Staff

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We just want to wish everyone a Happy Holidays from the Huntinglife.com Pro Staff!  Thanks everyone for the support!

Check out our fun grunt call holiday video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKxImXJuyW8

Thanks!

Huntinglife.com Pro Staff

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Well, the preliminary numbers are in for the Wisconsin gun hunt this year....20% less bucks shot and about 20% less does shot compared to last year!  Now, this is a sign that the efforts of lowering the deer herds in the last couple years has worked and I hope they don't keep the season set up the same way it is now!  If they keep letting people buy as many doe tags as they want over the counter and make people shoot does before they can shoot their bucks, there won't be much for a deer hunting opportunity in a few years.  It was a slow season for any hunters I talked to in Wisconsin, both for bow season and gun season.  Let's hope that the season will be changed next year so we can start seeing more again.  I know of a couple guys that shot 9 does each out of the same woods and only saw a couple small bucks all season!  This is not a good sign. (Shooting 18 does out of the same 40 acre parcel of woods during bow season doesn't help bring in anymore deer though, thats for sure.)  I just hope they put a little more restriction on how many does can be taken. I'm not saying that people shouldn't shoot does, because I shoot a couple does every year, but they shouldn't allow someone to shoot 9, that's a little unneccessary I think...Just sharing my opinion on that.

Hey everyone,

Just letting everyone know that we have been having a great season so far.  Our Pro Staffers have been having some great luck on and off the field this season and we have some great stories from their adventures, so if you have time you should definately check them out!  Thank you everyone for all of the support!

Sincerely,

Huntinglife.com Pro Staff Team

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pennsyslvania, wildlife, conservation, rocky mountain elk foundation, pennsylv

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Hello all,

I thought I would drop a quick note to all of my contacts over the last several years and say hello.  This year has been absolutely amazing for me and for HuntingLife.com.  

Today, I celebrate the 11th birthday of my son Tristan and we got to celebrate on Saturday by watching a baseball game together at the new Nationals Stadium.   We sat next to the bullpen and one of the players threw Tristan a ball and he caught it making the day absolutely perfect and one of those memories that Tristan and I will remember for the rest of our lives.

Today, I was also thinking about those a bit less fortunate then we are and thought I would make a plea out to all of my contacts to see if we can do something today to make a difference where it counts.  In the state of Virginia as many of you know, I work extremely hard with several conservation groups and in the next month two great groups are holding banquets to raise much needed funds.  These groups are:

Hunters for the Hungry operates by solicitation of successful hunters to donate venison. The deer are accepted by professional meat cutters who process (cut, wrap, and freeze) the venison. The meat is provided at no cost and is distributed by foodbanks and other 501 (C) (3) nonprofit organizations feeding Virginia's needy. We are not supported by any state funds nor are we a United Way Agency....Funds are raised to cover the cost of processing, distribution, and the overhead expenses of operation (less than 20% of total expenses). Financial support is currently the limiting factor....The simplicity of the program makes it not only easy to understand but also practical to operate. Hunters, all volunteers, do the work of providing the food. Processors inspect, cut, wrap, and freeze the meat (most charge us a fee reduced from normal rates). The venison is distributed through agencies already equipped for and in the business of feeding the needy. The food provided is a quality high protein, low-fat item not normally available.   http://www.h4hungry.org  Gary Arrington 434-299-6050

Hunters Helping Kids, Inc. (HHK) is a Non-Profit 501c3 Organization dedicated to inspire and educate our youth in wildlife conservation and management.  It is our belief that by involving our youth in outdoor shooting sports, the desire to preserve the conservation and hunting heritage will endure through future generations. http://www.huntershelpingkids.com/  Dennis Campbell  540-946-8447


This time of year and in the current economic climate both of these organizations are going to be very important as the years progress.  Children who are less fortunate and adults who are less fortunate really need a break and these groups and these individuals really could use any assistance that you can give them.  Whether you are an individual who can make just a small donation or you are working with a company that has products or trips that you can donate please take a couple of minutes and contact these two great individuals and help them out.

If I can do anything for you or you would be interested in working with me on the various charities and conservation organizations that I work or if you are looking for some much needed advertising on HuntingLife.com please do not hesitate to contact me at anytime.  I hope you all have a great hunting season and please do not hesitate to keep in touch!

Thank you,


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Kevin Paulson
Founder & CEO
HuntingLife.com
202-744-5806
kevin@huntinglife.com
http://www.huntinglife.com

We got interviewed today....Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for all of the great traffic......

 

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierrasportsmen/people/paulson/ 

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SCIF Contributes to The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma

Tucson, AZ – Safari Club International Foundation was among the first to contribute to the newly announced Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. The opening gala on July 29th and opening ceremony on the 30th kicked off a campaign to raise $20 million dollars for the children’s center.

“It is truly an honor for the SCI Foundation to support The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma,” said SCIF President Merle Shepard. “SCIF’s long association with the Richard Childress Foundation is strengthened through this important new project. We are pleased to add the Institute to the long list of valuable efforts we support that are sparked by the remarkable generosity of SCI Life Member Richard Childress.”

“The research conducted here at The Childress Institute will produce innovations and research that could be used in two SCIF-sponsored Safari CARE clinics in East and West Tanzania,” noted SCI’s Humanitarian Services Chairman Gene Rurka.

The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma will strive to become the most comprehensive children’s facility in the country by funding new research, education, outreach, treatment and prevention. The Institute will also focus on raising awareness about childhood injuries, and to develop new, child-specific medical devices.

For more information, please visit www.childresspediatrictrauma.org , www.wfu.bmc.edu , or call toll free 1-866-635-8190

The SCI Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization that funds and manages worldwide programs dedicated to wildlife conservation, outdoor education and humanitarian services, including such programs as Sportsmen Against Hunger, Sensory Safari, Safari CARE, Disabled Hunter, the American Wilderness Leadership School, Becoming an OutdoorsWoman & More and Youth Education Seminars (YES) Outdoors. Call 877-877-3265 or visit www.sci-foundation.org for more.

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Saint Paul, Minn. - July 21, 2008 - Minnesota's 2007-2008 pheasant harvest of 655,000 roosters is the highest-recorded total since 1964, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Pheasants Forever (PF) notes the critical role quality habitat has played in the ring-necked pheasants' resurgence across Minnesota's farm country."Four out of the past five years have produced a harvest of over a half million birds in Minnesota, including the last three consecutive seasons," said Matt Holland, PF Senior Field Coordinator.  "Minnesota must be mentioned among the typical pheasant powerhouse states like South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. However, you're only as good as your last acre of habitat work, and that challenge is never-ending."

Last October, 79,677 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres expired in Minnesota alone, and over half a million more Minnesota CRP acres are slated to expire over the course of the next five years. "Quality habitat is the determining factor.  We've made progress in Minnesota with one project, one program, and one acre at a time," Holland said.  "But it shouldn't be a secret to any resident or non-resident hunter that harvest totals will decline if there is a continuing loss of habitat." 

Successful long-term habitat programs like the Minnesota River CREP and the Wetlands Reserve Program have added core wildlife habitat that pheasants and other wildlife populations have the ability to take advantage of in good weather years.  Minnesota’s system of state Wildlife Management Areas and federal Waterfowl Production Areas also provide for access as well as habitat.   “Credit for this progress goes to the decision-makers who have, and continue to, provide funding for conservation and to all the partners and landowners that make good programs work on their land," Holland added. 

Holland points to the new State Acres For wildlife Enhancement (SAFE) program, called the Minnesota Back Forty Pheasant Habitat program, as evidence of landowner interest in conservation and wildlife habitat still being strong. Since the Minnesota SAFE sign-up began in April, over 10,000 acres have been offered for enrollment in the program, which is part of the continuous portion of CRP. Minnesota has been allocated 23,100 acres for enrollment in the Back Forty Pheasant Habitat program, which establishes small blocks of grassland (10-40 acres) and enhances existing habitats.

Since its first project in 1984, Minnesota's 75 PF chapters, one QF chapter and 27,000 PF/QF members have completed over 21,500 projects benefiting more than 184,000 acres of wildlife habitat.  In fact, Minnesota PF chapters have spent more than $33.7 million on habitat and conservation education in the state.

Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are non-profit conservation organizations dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasant, quail, and other wildlife populations in North America through habitat improvement, land management, public awareness, and education. PF/QF has more than 129,000 members in 700 local chapters across the continent.

For additional information about Pheasants Forever, please visit www.PheasantsForever.org

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HuntingLife.com and Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska Team up for Conservation

Effort Launched to Raise Awareness of the Growing Threat in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Region

For Immediate Release
July 11, 2008

Today marks the launch of a special campaign aimed at raising awareness among America’s hunters about a very serious threat facing one of the world’s most iconic sporting destinations: Alaska’s famed Bristol Bay region. While the world of sportfishing has been more aware of the plans to turn this area in southwest Alaska, which is home to the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery and tremendous angling and hunting opportunities, into a massive mining district, the time has come for hunters and the hunting community to further engage in this monumental conservation battle.

“HuntingLife.com has been committed to conservation from day one so it was a natural partnership to work with the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska to protect such amazing resources like Bristol Bay and the Tongass National Forest. Bristol Bay is one of those areas in America where sportsmen from all walks of life dream of hunting moose, caribou and bears or wetting a line pursuing the mighty salmon and trout. Partnering with the Sportman’s Alliance for Alaska on this wonderful project was a no-brainer for Team HuntingLife,” said HuntingLife.com founder Kevin C. Paulson.

For anyone not familiar with the debate raging in Bristol Bay, here is a brief primer. Bristol Bay is home to the largest runs of wild salmon left on the planet, with tens of millions of fish returning every year. The salmon form the cornerstone of an incredibly rich and complex ecosystem which also supports some of the finest trophy wild rainbow trout fishing found in the world and additional angling opportunities for Dolly Varden, arctic char, lake trout, arctic grayling, and northern pike. Of course the salmon also feed the large population of brown and black bears found in the region. Hunters have traveled to the Bristol Bay area for decades to pursue not only bear, but also trophy moose and caribou from the famed Mulchatna herd in a wild and remote setting. This sporting Mecca is located in southwest Alaska, approximately 250 miles from Anchorage, and is only accessible by plane or boat. In the midst of this rich fish and game habitat, a foreign partnership (one British company and one Canadian company) have plans to develop the largest open-pit copper/gold/molybdenum mine in North America. If approved, the Pebble Mine could include a massive open pit mine, an adjacent underground mine, 5 huge earthen dams (including two of the largest on the planet – one being 4.3 miles long and over 740 feet tall), and a tailings lake covering as much as 15 square miles to hold back the toxic byproducts of the mining process. Even more alarming, the Pebble Mine could become the centerpiece of what the mining industry has referred to as a world-class mining district. Over 1,000 square miles of state lands are already staked with mining claims in the region and the federal Bureau of Land Management has proposed lifting the mining restrictions on over 1 million acres of lands under its management in the Bristol Bay region. It’s not hard to imagine that such development in one of the world’s premier hunting and angling destinations would have an impact on fish and game and sportsperson’s opportunities to pursue them.

Scott Hed serves as the Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska (SAA), whose goal is to engage sportspersons in the battle for Bristol Bay’s future. “The need is urgent right now to engage hunters in this fight. Hunters and anglers both have a lot at stake in the future of Bristol Bay. While Bristol Bay is most well-known as one of the top sportfishing destinations on the planet, it’s also a premier place for big game hunting. Hunters travel from across the globe to pursue trophy moose, caribou, and bear in this region,” said Hed. In the past year, the Dallas Safari Club, Wildlife Forever, and Izaak Walton League of America have expressed their opposition to the plans to turn Bristol Bay into an industrial mining zone.

Today the SAA is launching a new page on its Web site to help raise awareness among hunters about this critical issue. Visitors will learn more about hunting in Bristol Bay, view an upcoming advertisement to be placed in Black’s Wing, Clay, and Waterfowl 2009 Guide, and be able to make a donation to the Bristol Bay conservation campaign. Perhaps most exciting is the drawing in which donors will be entered.

Hed added “Through the tremendous support and leadership of conservation-minded companies like HuntingLife.com, Kimber, Leupold, Sitka Gear and Polartec, I’m thrilled that hunters will now be able to learn more about the Bristol Bay region and how they can get involved in the fight to protect an iconic sporting destination. The participation of the Whitney family and Alaska Wilderness Trips, Inc. really put the icing on the cake as we were developing this promotion.”

For a suggested donation of $50, donors will be entered in a drawing for the following prize package:

• 10-day fully guided Alaska moose hunt for 1 hunter in 2009 with Alaska Wilderness Trips, Inc.
• Kimber Model 84M or 8400 Montana rifle in winner’s choice of caliber
• Leupold VX-II 3-9x40mm scope
• 90% Jacket, Ascent pant, and base layer system from Sitka Gear and Polartec

The retail value of the package is approximately $11,700.

“Putting together such an amazing package has been a blast, this is a hunt that any hunter would be more than excited to be a part of,” said HuntingLife.com’s Paulson. The hunt promotion will be limited to the first 500 qualifying donations and early responses from hunters aware of the upcoming opportunity to participate indicate that it will be very popular.

When asked why his company chose to support this project, Patrick Mundy, Leupold’s Marketing Communications Supervisor stated simply “As members of the hunting and shooting industry, we are in full support of protecting places like Bristol Bay to preserve hunting lands for future generations for several reasons. Not only is the natural environment critical to conserve, but without hunting lands to access, we lose hunters – which we can ill afford in this day and age.”

Jonathan Hart, Founder and co-owner of Sitka Gear echoed those sentiments. “As a company involved in the hunting industry, Sitka fully supports, and is extremely thankful for, the hard work that the Sportsman¹s Alliance of Alaska is doing to protect the Bristol Bay Region. The bottom line is that the mining proposals would forever compromise the health of the area. The tundra, the big game, and the fisheries in Southwest Alaska are a sustainable resource. The long-term health of the area, both in an economic and an ecosystem sense, depends on those resources. If my kids and your kids can’t hunt and fish there when they’re older, we’ve screwed up big time.”

For Alaskan guide Clark Whitney, Jr. who will be guiding the moose hunt for the winner of the drawing, the matter is even more personal. “I shot my first trophy bull caribou right at the mouth of Talarik Creek (one of the creeks that would be drained to provide water for the mine) when I was 13 years old, and the mine footprint area is a traditional calving grounds for the Mulchatna caribou herd. If this mine is permitted, it will have a devastating effect on these animals and this region’s wild character will forever be lost.”

Contributions to this promotion will be designated for brochures and other informational materials, travel for staff and volunteers to make Bristol Bay conservation presentations to clubs and organizations, day-to-day expenses and other direct costs.

“For someone looking to lend support to an incredibly important conservation campaign and possibly end up on that Alaska hunting trip of a lifetime, this is a tremendous way to help make a difference. While we can’t match the dollars that the mining companies are throwing at this fight, sportspersons have always shown a passion and a willingness to fight for places they care about,” concluded SAA’s Hed.

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