“Something is happening here,” said Chris Wood, vice president for conservation at the advocacy group Trout Unlimited. “What we’re seeing is the emergence of a powerful new voice in conservation. It’s not your garden-variety environmental groups. It’s hunters and anglers and outfitters and guides that are helping convince Democrats and Republicans alike of the need to protect these last places.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/24/AR2006072400951.html
TRANSLATION:
We have a much better chance to win these battles if we don’t look like crazy hippies. Much of our membership is middle-aged now and are looking for more than Pyrhhic victories.
