The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, in partnership with Responsive Management and the NRA Hunters’ Leadership Forum, invite personnel from fish and wildlife agencies and nonprofit/ nongovernmental organizations that are committed to the promotion and defense of hunting to attend an interactive one-day workshop on how to debate and communicate effectively about hunting. The workshop, to be held May 15, 2019 in Dulles, Virginia, is the culmination of a year-long Multistate Conservation Grant project funded through the Wildlife Restoration Program (administered by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies). A formal agenda, including additional details regarding the workshop, will be sent to attendees following registration.

Now more than ever, legal, recreational hunting in the United States is under fire from anti-hunting animal rights activists. Through distorted and cherry-picked statistics, blatant appeals to emotion, and outright falsehoods, these anti-hunting forces are too often able to claim…