“In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wildlife, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
HSCF champions these programs, which constitute 99% of wilderness conservation efforts.
Without hunting industry contributions, wildlife faces threats like habitat loss and overpopulation.