Wildlife Action

Wildlife Action

1.      Once an issue or problem is presented to your chapter, your board members need to vote whether to support or oppose the issue. Read the National Constitution under "Resolutions" to see if any have been passed regarding this issue.

2.      Form a committee to handle the specific problems.

3.      Contact state or National sr. vice-presidents for assistance.

4.      Contact your state agency which would handle the problems.

5.      Advertise in your local papers something like this: "If you want to stop the ... from being built in ... JOIN WILDLIFE ACTION, a group of concerned hunters, fishermen and conservationists who are working for a quality life for future generations" .

a.       it is imperative you include hunters and fishermen

b.      this must not be just another "environmental" movement as we want to educate the public that we are all working together for wildlife and sportsmen's rights

c.       place an application form and the WLA logo in the ad

d.      have it as big as you can afford and rW1 it several times

6.      Request local radio stations do a PSA, which is free, saying something like this: "Wildlife Action, a group of concerned sportsmen and women want clean water for our children. A low-level nuclear treatment facility would have the opposite effect on our water supply." Of course, rephrase for appropriate problem/issue.

7.      Request your city and county councils pass resolutions opposing or supporting the issue.

8.      Get local input from where the "source" of the problem is originating.

9.      Write your political delegates requesting they oppose or support the issue.

10.  Begin a massive letter-writing campaign to the editors of all papers which have some relationship to the location where the problem is originating.

11.  Hold YOUR OWN WLA CHAPTER PUBLIC HEARING open to the public. Request a representative from the "problem source" attend and respond to questions and answers.

12.  Make friends with the newspapers and get editorials, special articles, photographs, etc. in the paper.

13.  Get your Pioneers involved in writing letters saying they don't want to have their health threatened by polluted water or whatever the problem is. This is a great way for our children to learn how to solve problems so when they become adults they will already have the knowledge and experience.

14.  LAST BUT MOST IMPORTANT, NEVER GIVE UP. PERSEVERANCE PAYS OFF. ONE INDIVIDUAL CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. JUST THINK WHAT YOUR ENTIRE CHAPTER CAN DO FOR WILDLIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR YOUR GRANDCHILDREN.

GOOD LUCK!