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Why Conservation Matters
Strengthening Partnerships between State Fish & Wildlife Agencies, Industry, and their
Customers
Imagine where would we be… • Without deer and deer hunting? • Or turkeys? Or elk? Or bass? • Or waterfowl, doves, squirrels, etc.?
• Without shooting ranges? • Without shooting programs? • Without hunter education? • Without public land? Or public boat/fishing access?
Where would we be without state fish and wildlife agencies, license
buyers, and the industries that support them?
Conservation Matters!
And conservation funding is how it happens.
Hooks and Bullets: How Conservation is
Funded
Greatest Story Never Told…a 4 Billion Dollar Conservation
Machine
Sources of Funding for States
Conservation Funding
License Dollars
Tax Check-offs, etc.
General Fund
Equipment Purchases
Amount of Excise Tax
Numbers of Licenses
Land mass of State
Congressional Approps
50%
50%
Excise Taxes --
fishing equipment and trolling
motors
Import Duties –
boats and yachts And fishing equipment
Fuels Tax -- Highway Trust
Fund motor boat and small engine
fuels
Interest from the
Trust Fund
Multi-State Conservation
Fixed $3 million
SFR Grant Admin – Fixed w/ CPI adj.
(1.6%)
Nat’l Outreach & Communication
RBFF (2%)
BIG (2%) & CVA (2%)
$800K Fisheries Commissions &
$400K SFBPC
Coastal Wetlands Act (18.5%)
NAWCA & Nat’l Coastal Wetlands
USCG Boating Safety
(18.5%)
States - Sport Fish Restoration & Boating
Access (57%)
2017 Sport Fish Restoration and
Boating Trust Fund ~$580 M
All DJ Excise Taxes Collected
56%
16%
6%
6%
16%
Motorboat Gas
Small Engine Gas
Imports Duties
Fish Equipment
Based on Annual Averages
Wildlife Restoration Program Funding Cycle
Wildlife Restoration Account
North American Wetlands Conservation Program
(~$20M per year)
$3,000,000 Multistate Conservation Grants
$629,410,911 Wildlife
Restoration Program
Hunter Education: Section 4c =$142.6M Section 10 = $7.9M
to USFWS for Migratory Bird Program
(~$4M last year)
11% tax on bows, quivers, broadheads, points, arrow shafts (adjusted each year) 11% tax on firearms & ammunition
FWS Administration
10% tax on pistols, handguns and revolvers
Custom Duties
$780M for 2017
All PR revenue collected in 2016 $787,495,000
30%
30%
35%
4% 1%
Pistols & Revolvers
Firearms (other)
Shells & Cartridges
Bows, Broadheads
Arrow Shafts
= $2400 ~$240 for conservation
= $250 ~ $25 for conservation
= $800 ~$80 for conservation
One example…
= $50 ~$5 for conservation
= $40 ~$4 for conservation
= $10 ~$1 for conservation
Typical Sport Shooter (Me)
One time Purchase of those 3 firearms: • $345 FET
Annually Purchase:
• 5 boxes .22 rimfire……..$25 FET* • 2 flats of 12 ga…………….$20 FET* • 1000 rounds .223………...$40 FET*
Match with 25% license dollars…..$143
Total Conservation Funding $573
*(Annual FET from ammo purchase is more than many resident hunting licenses)
State use of Pittman-Robertson excise tax
$10.7B to conservation from inception (1937)
FY2017 receipts exceeded $780M
Matched 75:25 by state license dollars
Provide “on-the-ground” benefits, including:
• Species Restoration • Wildlife Management • Habitat Management • Land Acquisition • Operations and Maintenance of Public Lands • Public Shooting Ranges • Hunting, Shooting, and Recruitment Programs • Hunter Education
Funding for Wildlife Restoration Program (1937), Sport Fish Restoration Program (1950), and State Wildlife Grants
(2001), since inception
$0
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$200,000,000
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Wildlife Restoration Funds Sport Fish Restoration Funds State Wildlife Grants
Economic Impact
Total expenditures for angling, hunting, and wildlife associated recreation are the equivalent of a 145 billion dollar business in this country – Annually. That’s 9th on the Fortune 500 list…just behind General Electric… Or, if we were a country, we would rank 58th in GDP of countries just behind Vietnam…
Industry Agency Coalition
• Fish and Wildlife Business Summit • Branding Conservation • Sharing the Information • Resolving Excise Tax Inequities • Recruitment, Retention, Reactivation
Conclusions Keeping hunters hunting, shooters shooting, anglers angling, and boaters boating… • Is vital to state fish and wildlife agencies • Is vital to industry • Is vital to retailers • Is vital to conservation NGOs • Is vital to conservation
We must all hang together or we will surely hang separately! (Ben Franklin 1776)
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