Half A Million For More Hunting The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has awarded 15 state agencies $422,868.50 in grants to help expand hunting opportunities in NSSF’s Hunting Heritage Partnership program. “Grant recipients in each of these states have designed unique and dynamic recruitment tools that will help carry on America’s hunting legacy and the conservation funding that relies on it. These are exactly the kind of creative program-development concepts that agencies in other states can look to as models to help preserve our hunting and conservation traditions,” said Doug Painter, president of NSSF. America continues to depend on hunters as the primary funding source for most wildlife and habitat conservation programs. The Hunting Heritage Partnership was established by NSSF, the trade association for the firearm industry, to help state wildlife agencies enhance opportunities for hunting, thus positively affecting conservation for the future.