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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Buzz; Coggins and his ilk are buffoons, and that’s being kind. Him and his want to make everything some partisan political circle-jerk and a litany of personal attacks, both of which are just disgusting. Frankly, if he and his bunch evaporated, the world would be a better place. So, nope, on...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Absolute agreement. Buzz does damned great work, and I have never had anything but admiration for him.
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    No, the refusal to stay on topic of the national org and not twist to chapters or individuals is the chess playing. When the national org cannot be defended, when the funding is - as even Buzz has said - “is what it is”, and the fact that foundations fund exactly how and why I stated, then...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Buzz, if BHA changed direction on the trapping ban, it was a second push and it was a chapter statement only (not the national org., which again is what I’ve been speaking to). I can tell you for a fact that they did not engage on it early and were not listed as a member of the coalition of...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Exactly. But, look at the groups pushing the wolf intro to CO, and you find the same foundations pouring money in. Just like grizzlies in the West, in BC; bear hunting in numerous states; trapping; and on and on. Instead, distract as many hunters from the importance of those fights, divide...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Actually, it makes perfect sense if what you want to fund is a distraction so the other groups that you fund can be more effective. As to the “advocacy”; BHA paid staffers via the ID Chapter FaceBook page when asked why BHA failed to engage on the public lands bill there that had a two vote...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Great. Now, compare that to the $1.4M spent last year by the org on travel and advertising. Compare it to the grant funding that came in via Hewlett, Wyss, and Wilburforce and the like, and their funnels, that drive nearly 60% of the organizational operating revenue. Compare that to the...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Well enough to know that I have not and am not critiquing the work you do. You aren’t the org. The org is a c3 HQ’d in Missoula, and driven (no matter what the sales pitch says) by a handful of very large, very anti-hunting foundations who provide the majority of the operating funding and who...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Compare the factually inaccurate verbiage from the anti- groups that share BHA funding on H.R. 4089 to the BHA position statement. https://www.sportsmensalliance.org/news/h-r-4089-provides-fundraising-bonanza-for-extremist-groups/ https://www.backcountryhunters.org/h_r_4089_bha_s_position...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Yep, and as usual, you and the others have to twist the conversation off what drives the national org. That’s not a “yeah, but”; it’s remaining on topic. I know you; had dinner and beers with you. I know you bust your ass and try to do good work. The same can be said for lots of individuals...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    BuzzH; Show me where I’ve said chapters? I have not. I have been and continue to speak very clearly about the org as and at the national level. There is a reason that you, and everyone else who wants to defend BHA changes the topic from the national org that receives the majority of its...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    BINGO! Now, add that to what I’ve been saying.
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Right. BHA has retroactively redacted EVERY financial statement to hide funders. Hell, they show nearly 60% of operational funding coming from foundations on their last annual report, yet fail to list any foundation on that report. Go look at their older reports; they list names on them (for...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    I don’t have to thumb through a sales pitch. I spent better than 6 years pouring a ton of effort into that group. I know them inside and out, and I was dead damned wrong to have stuck with them as long as I did. Hewlett, Wyss, and Wilburforce foundations andbtheir created funnels of Western...
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    BHA Supporting Legislation Outlawing the Sale of Information on Big Game Locations

    Comerade, et al., I can assure you I know BHA very well. I laid out my background with them earlier in this thread. And, I detailed their funding. They are funded primarily by the same foundations that fund Sierra Club and a long list of the anti-hunting, anti-management groups that are...
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