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PinkFloydBoxSet t1_j7imxgt wrote

This has always been the best venue for positive climate impact.

Same reason in deep red states with high hunting populations have a bunch of "conservation groups" who push anti deforestation/development/mining bills to the locals. It works. Simple pitch. Vote for bill XYZ so they don't cut down a bunch of forests and destroy your hunting areas.

It's also working for banning a bunch of inhumane practices like trapping.

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BjornAltenburg t1_j7jaeke wrote

Got any evidence? Hunting has been on the decline for two decades now and the lack of sportsman tax revenue generally in state budgets out west has not been matched. Take it from an avid hunter most state legislaturesand the public can not be brought to care even in red states. https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/01/decline-in-hunting-threatens-conservation-funding/ I know it's more a light article but can dig out the poli Sci papers if need be.

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PinkFloydBoxSet t1_j7l3kdd wrote

Because it’s what is being used in Montana, Wyoming, Indiana and some parts of Florida that I know of personally because I have seen TV ads and know people working with the advocacy groups on the local level.

I have friends who mention that it is also going in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky.

That evidence enough.

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DorianGre t1_j7n16sg wrote

And Arkansas and Illinois. Finding large tracks of land for sale that hasn’t had some part of it enrolled in a wetlands or conservation easement is getting more and more difficult. (Also, this will be a large problem in the future. Forever use bans is not best productivity or ecology.)

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