 
"Hunters and anglers have a long history of protecting and restoring fish, wildlife, and habitat... At the beginning of the 20th century there were about 500,000 white-tailed deer in the United States; today there are 27 million. Only 41,000 elk survived in 1907; now there are a million. In 1910 antelope were down to 5,000; today there are at least a million. A century ago wild turkeys were close to extinction; last spring there were 4.2 million."
— Ted Williams, Natural Allies
Sierra Club's Policy On Sport Hunting & Fishing:
Wildlife and Native Plant Management, Sport Hunting And Fishing - Wildlife and native plant management should emphasize maintenance and restoration of healthy, viable native plant and animal populations, their habitats, and ecological processes. Acceptable management approaches include both regulated periodic hunting and fishing when based on sufficient scientifically valid biological data and when consistent with all other management purposes and when necessary total protection of particular species or populations. Because national parks are set aside for the preservation of natural landscapes and wildlife, the Sierra Club is opposed to sport hunting in national parks.
— Adopted by the Sierra Club Board of Directors, December 10-11, 1994.
Sierra Club Update: February 23, 2006
More than 160 people attended the Clean Water Summit for Hunters and Anglers co-hosted by the Club on February 3-4, 2006.
Read this news story about the summit.
American Sportsmen and women make up more than 35 million of our friends and neighbors and approximately 20 percent of Sierra Club members say they bought a hunting and/or fishing license in the past year.
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Read more about Sierra Club's conservation leaders. |
Why I Hunt, by Rick Bass
Caribou Rising by Rick Bass
Lewis & Clark Fishing Guide
Hunting, Fishing and Conservation (pdf file)
Conservation Timeline
Hunting and Fishing Library
Natural Allies, by Ted Williams
(Sierra Magazine, September/October 1996)
Straight Shooter, Marilyn Berlin Snell
(Sierra Magazine, March/April 2003)
The War for Norman's River, by David James Duncan
(Sierra Magazine, May/June 1998)
The Sierra Club supports the following organizations:
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