Hunting usually isn’t top-of-mind conversation in America’s literary circles, but that may be changing as a book published by Boone and Crockett Club continues to garner national honors and awards.
One of the nation's leading outdoor magazines has for the second straight year identified 25 exceptional individuals for their prestigious Conservationist of the Year Award.
America's oldest and most prestigious North American conservation organization, the Boone and Crockett Club, which was founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt, will be recognized during the January 8th Saturday Night Gala of the Dallas Safari Club 2009 convention as the recipient of the Peter Hathaway Capstick Hunting Heritage Award (PHCHHA).
What would America’s greatest conservation hero, Theodore Roosevelt, think of the upcoming White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy?
Would Roosevelt be proud of conservation today?
“I’m certain that he’d be beaming,” says Lowell E. Baier, president of Boone and Crockett Club, the organization that Roosevelt founded in 1887 to guide wildlife restoration and management.
With 37 years of volunteer service to conservation, Baier has amassed a long and impressive list of accomplishments. He was the lead in drafting President Bush’s wildlife conservation agenda, and a delegate to the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation as well as the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Steering Committee.
Baier also spearheaded a collaborative effort to protect Theodore Roosevelt’s historic 23,550-acre Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota, a project that came to fruition in 2007.
