Boone & Crockett Club
The Boone & Crockett Club is a sport hunting and gun rights advocacy organization. The mission of the Boone & Crockett Club is "promote the conservation and management of wildlife, especially big game, and its habitat, to preserve and encourage hunting and to maintain the highest ethical standards of fair chase and sportsmanship in North America."[1]
The Boone & Crockett Club is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, which is also the home of Bear Trust International.
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Lobbying
The Boone & Crockett club spent $120,000 on gun rights lobbying in 2015. [2] In 2012, the Center for Responsive Politics cited the Boone & Crockett Club as one of the top lobbying spenders for gun rights in the U.S. for the years 2011-2012 alongside Safari Club International and the National Rifle Association.[3]
Lobbying for H.R. 2406, the SHARE Act
The Boone & Crockett Club is among the undersigned in a February 2, 2016 letter lobbying US congressional leaders to support proposed legislation H.R. 2406, the Sportsman's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act.[4] This legislation, which on February 26, 2016 passed the US House of Representatives,[5] aims to "protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes" and includes the following provisions, among others:[6]
- Enables the Secretary of Interior to authorize import permits of 41 polar bears legally harvested from approved populations in Canada before the polar bear was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 2008
- Requires Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) lands to be open for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting unless specifically closed
- Exempts lead shot and lead tackle from regulation by the U.S. EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act
- Prevents the Departments of Interior and Agriculture from regulating the use of ammunition and fishing tackle based on lead content
- Extends and increases states’ authority to allocate Pittman-Robertson funding for shooting ranges on public lands, and encourages federal land agencies to cooperate with state and local governments to maintain shooting ranges
- Authorizes ivory to be imported or exported under the African Elephant Conservation Act and the ESA if the raw ivory or worked ivory is solely for a museum; if it was lawfully importable into the United States on February 24, 2014, regardless of when it was acquired; or if the worked ivory was previously lawfully possessed in the United States.[7][8]
Board
The Boone & Crockett Club and Foundation Board of Directors are selected annually at the Club's December meeting. Terms begin on January 1st. Accessed March 2016:[9]
- President: Morrison Stevens, Sr.
- Secretary: Tom L. Lewis
- Treasurer: C. Martin Wood III
- Executive Vice President of Administration: Timothy C. Brady
- Executive Vice President of Conservation: James F. Arnold
- Vice President of Administration: Marshall J. Collins Jr.
- Vice President of Big Game Records: Eldon L. Buckner
- Vice President of Conservation: James L. Cummins
- Vice President of Communications: CJ Buck
- Foundation President: B.B. Hollingsworth, Jr.
Contact details
The Boone & Crockett Club
250 Station Drive
Missoula, MT 59801
bcclub AT boone-crockett.org
Articles and Resources
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References
- ↑ Boone & Crockett Club, "About the B&C Club," organizational website, accessed March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Opensecrets.org, "Boone & Crockett Club Client Profile: Summary," Center for Responsive Politics, accessed March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Michelle Martinelli and Michelle Merlin, "Gun Rights Groups’ Political Spending Crushes That of Gun Control Supporters," OpenSecretsBlog, Center for Responsive Politics, December 14, 2012, accessed March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Various Organizations, "Letter to Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Urging Them to Support H.R. 2406, the SHARE Act," lobbying letter, February 2, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016.
- ↑ Congressional Sportsman's Foundation, "House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan SHARE Act, Supports America’s Hunters and Anglers," media release, February 26, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016
- ↑ Congressional Sportsman's Foundation, "Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act of 2015 Summary," February 2, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016.
- ↑ "Text of the SHARE Act," GovTrack.us, March 1, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016
- ↑ "H.R.2406 - SHARE Act," legislation summary, Congress.gov, accessed March 15, 2016
- ↑ Boone & Crockett Club, "Boone and Crockett Club Board of Directors and Officers," organizational website, January 28, 2016, accessed March 15, 2016.
