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Boone and Crockett Club Strategic Plan

A Historic Record of Success...
A Strategic Framework for the Future

The early leaders of the Boone and Crockett Club saw a crisis in humanity’s impact on wildlife and their habitat. They developed a strategy that not only reversed the problems of their times, but formed the foundation and framework for conservation in America. These achievements gave America’s oldest conservation organization its credibility as an effective and influential organization.

Today 130 years later, challenges still exist, and while some are different, they continue to revolve around properly managing land and wildlife amidst an expanding human population and its thrust for natural resources.

If the Club is to continue as an effective and influential organization, we must continue to not only evaluate, adjust and fine tune our program of work, but adapt it to the political, economic, social, technological and environmental changes facing North America.

The Club proposes to address these challenges by developing a strategy that enjoys broad support from the Club’s members, sponsors, donors, other conservation organizations, government agencies and other stakeholders throughout North America.

This Strategic Plan will help the Club chart its future course, not only for the next 5 years, but lay the groundwork for the Club for the rest of this century, taking into consideration these changes, as well as the momentum the Club has gained since it was formed in 1887.

This Strategic Plan proposes that the Club simplify its mission and visions and set four major strategic goals, which are:

• Improve the system of conservation throughout North America;
• Create a communications climate where conservation and hunting can thrive;
• Maintain and strengthen the Club’s world-class records system; and
• Increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Hunting and conservation are at a “crossroads” in North America. The challenges to them are great, but the historic achievements and the financial, political, communication and scientific assets of the Club’s members places the Club in a unique position, unlike ANY other conservation organization, to successfully address them.

 

 

MISSION STATEMENT

It is the mission of the Boone and Crockett Club to promote the conservation and management of wildlife, especially big game, and its habitat, to preserve and encourage hunting and to maintain the highest ethical standards of fair chase and sportsmanship in North America.

 

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"The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So we must and we will."

-Theodore Roosevelt