Looking ahead to 2026, our focus remains on building a stronger, more engaged sportsmen’s community. We plan to launch memberships, share clearer ways to get involved, along with resuming our podcast and polishing up our website to keep you informed and connected.
Legislatively, we will continue tracking bills, create action items, and advancing our own policy proposals during the 2026 Legislative Session opening on January 12th. Commission involvement will remain a top priority. We will continue encouraging strong attendance at meetings, working with good-faith commissioners, and holding bad actors accountable. Many problematic commission terms are ending next year, and we will work to ensure they are not reappointed, but instead replaced with commissioners that can accept both parts of their mandate and will follow department recommendations.
Our wildlife and habitat priorities include bighorn sheep and mountain goat recovery, wolf downlisting, shrubsteppe conservation, taking steps towards restoring spring bear hunt, and removing conflict kills from cougar quotas as conflict issues continue to grow. We appreciate you standing with us and hoping you’re enjoying the last days of 2025 hunting. We’ll keep working hard in the year ahead. We are grateful to everyone who showed up, testified, attended meetings, supported actions, and engaged to support science-based management and sportsmen opportunity throughout the year.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!
