BRISTOL — Mark Duda is CEO of Responsive Management, a Virginia-based survey firm whose apparent mission is to make the public have a positive view of baiting, trapping and hounding as well as hunting in general and approve of those who manage the state’s wildlife. A review of his client list includes a number of fish and game departments throughout the country as well as the pro-hunting group Safari Club International.

In 2016, the National Rifle Association’s Distinguished Leadership Award was given to Duda on behalf of his company, which was described as “the internationally noted public-opinion-and-attitude survey research firm specializing in natural resources…