Our Mission

The Fieldsport and Angling Society seeks the growth of sporting traditions and to encourage positive attitudes towards such traditions within the law school and in society as a whole. We seek to maintain an approachable atmosphere that encourages interested students to learn with us about these safe and enjoyable outdoor pastimes. We encourage the responsible use and protection of watersheds, forests, and farmlands. We enjoy and embrace our role as a steward of and active participant in the natural world. We recognize the equal dangers posed to sporting traditions by irresponsible practitioners and also by misinformed opponents of our traditions. As such, our primary goal is education through responsible model behavior and dedication to the ideals of sportsmanship, safety, fair chase, respect for private property, conservation and transmission of tradition.

Interested in Getting Out?

We get together semi-regularly to shoot sporting clays at Quail Ridge. If you are interested in getting together for a round, drop us a line. We'll add you to the email list that goes around.

Additionally, we have several members who are avid anglers who would be happy to get a line wet.

Contact us at FieldsportandAngling At Gmail Dot Com
News and Events

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Conservation Reserve Program under fire

Ducks Unlimited has an action item concerning the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP):

The future of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is in jeopardy and needs your help! A recent proposal by the USDA would eliminate enrollments into CRP for the next two years. This comes at a time when over 4 million acres of CRP will be expiring. This program has been vital to conserving waterfowl breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of the Dakotas, Iowa, Montana, and Minnesota by allowing farmers to convert marginal cropland into grasslands vital as nesting habitat in return for rental payments. In addition to the removal of the CRP enrollment option for landowners, rental rates being offered to landowners on current CRP lands have not kept pace with the market values of their lands.

Check out this and other wetland and habitat conservation priorities in the 2007 Farm Bill at the Ducks Unlimited Conservation page.

Posted by Fieldsport and Angling Society at 7:20 AM