It’s Time To Take Action
For decades, conservation leaders and natural resources departments have anticipated declining hunting and fishing license sales as the nation’s demographics change. Despite years of effort, the nagging narrative regarding the future of traditional outdoors sports persists. Fewer people are buying hunting and fishing licenses, and the resulting loss of excise tax dollars and license fees means less funding to manage natural resources and preserve habitat and wildlife.
Losing wild places is tragic. Losing citizens equipped to respectfully test and challenge themselves and cherish those wild places is equally tragic.
The Outdoor News Foundation is here to help to turn the tide.
Our Mission...
The Outdoor News Foundation is dedicated to recruiting new hunters, anglers, and conservationists by exposing them to, and by engaging them in outdoors lifestyle and culture, educating them on conservation issues, and supporting the next generation of outdoors journalists, and fish and wildlife researchers and managers.
Our Vision...
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation requires a renewable supply of hunting and fishing license holders. Recruiting, educating, and engaging the next generation of outdoors users will ensure successful fish and wildlife management, a vibrant outdoors industry, and a healthier environment for the 21st Century and beyond.
Our Mission...
The Outdoor News Foundation is dedicated to recruiting new hunters, anglers, and conservationists by engaging them in the outdoors lifestyle and culture, educating them on conservation issues, and supporting the next generation of outdoors journalists, and fish and wildlife researchers and managers.
Our Vision...
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation requires a renewable supply of hunting and fishing license holders. Recruiting, educating, and engaging the next generation of outdoors users will ensure successful fish and wildlife management, a vibrant outdoors industry, and a healthier environment for the 21st Century and beyond.
How Do You Go About Creating the Next Generation of Hunters and Anglers?
How Do You Go About Creating the Next Generation of Hunters and Anglers?
You start with education. Most outdoors mentoring programs expose young people to nature or traditional sporting activities via one-off clinics or events. Kids have an experience, take a picture, then return to their lives of youth sports and video gaming. Outdoor mentorship requires more than a four-hour fishing derby or a once-in-an-adolescence wild turkey hunt. It requires familiarity and immersion into America’s outdoor culture.
The Outdoor News Foundation aims to create those lifelong connections old-school: with information and dollars. We’ll accomplish that task via scholarships for students enrolled in collegiate fish and wildlife biology studies, environmental learning centers, and outdoors journalism programs.
But for starters, we’re putting the latest hunting, fishing, and conservation news into the hands of future license buyers – from all walks of life. Every day, via Outdoornews.com, today’s younger generation can experience the same connectivity to America’s hunting and fishing culture that previous generations took for granted.
Kids without the financial means to access this information will have it via The Outdoor News Foundation. You can help mentor these young people with donations larger or small. A single donation of $25 helps deliver Outdoor News to needy kids, and helps fund these critical education programs. You choose your donations level.
Make your mark. Whether you’re donating on behalf of yourself, or in memoriam of a lost loved one who cherished the outdoors, every little bit matters. Donate now and help us forge a lasting legacy for the outdoor community.
And by future, we mean a year from now, tomorrow, and today.
