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Non-Resident Hunter
Preservation Fund
This fund is
the most important and effective contribution you can give to future hunting
opportunities in Alaska. It represents the most direct contribution any
non-resident can give to help preserve and enhance quality hunting
opportunities. With your participation, we can substantially help control our
own destiny. Without it, we will continue to see our hunting rights reduced and
restricted.
What It Is
The Alaska
Professional Hunters Association Inc. established the Non-Resident Hunting
Preservation Fund in 2004 to help ensure that non-resident hunters will continue
to have hunting opportunities in Alaska. Anti hunting sentiment, public land
access, hunting privileges, subsistence, reduced hunting seasons, restrictive
regulations, predator-prey ratios and ballot initiatives are all challenges that
are facts of life for hunters today. This is especially true for the
non-resident hunters.
Since
1973 APHA has been a leader organization in Alaska guarding the continual flow
of regulatory restrictions on hunting and public land access being attempted by
anti sport-hunting groups or government agencies. APHA provides full time
representation in Washington DC and Juneau, is a active and respected
participant in Alaska Board of Game process, initiates predator harvest fee
programs, and continually is at the forefront of avocation demanding management
of our wildlife for balance and abundance. The APHA role in this arena is vital
to all hunting opportunity and access rights on public lands throughout the US.
We can no longer have only a reactive position to the continual stream of
challenges being presented to us. It is past time to become proactive. Our goal
is to continue to create conservation partnerships, help with scientific needs,
challenge policies that continue to take away our hunting and access rights and
to preserve and enhance quality wilderness hunting opportunities in Alaska.
Professional
members of the APHA support industry and resource stewardship efforts through
their annual membership dues. In addition, the APHA receives support funding
from numerous sportsman and conservation organizations. These important
traditional funding sources do not meet the needs for APHA to be successful with
the present and future challenges we are faced with.
How it Works
The NRHPF is a
$150.00 fee per contracted client, which each APHA professional member is
responsible to collect and pay to APHA. NRHPF funds received by the contracting
guide may be paid to APHA at any time during each year but are due by December 1st
of each year. To protect the privacy between clients and guides, personal
information will be kept strictly confidential by APHA. Additionally, anyone
wishing to make a direct donation to this fund can do so by direct mailing to
APHA.
How Best to Implement It
APHA
members that have already become involved with the NRHPF have found that it
works the most efficiently to implement the fee as follows:
1.
Include a description of the fee and what it
does in your advertising media.
2.
Mention it to all prospective clients during
original correspondence.
3.
Include it as a line item expense on your
guide/client contract, due with deposit.
4.
Send the funds and new NRHPF member information
to APHA
What the Hunter Receives
Each
client who pays the NRHPF will receive the following:
- Two year
sustaining membership in The Alaska Professional Hunters Association
- APHA
Conservation Pin (Special Design by Rob Holt)
- Two year
subscription to The Alaska Professional Hunter Magazine and Bare Facts
Newsletter
- APHA
membership Certificate
- APHA Patch,
Lapel Pin and Decal
- The knowledge
that they have helped to give future generations the ability to hunt in Alaska
Additional
brochures may be obtained from the APHA office
NRHPF Brochure
(PDF File)
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Professional Hunters Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved
03/31/2008 |
