Staff members from the National Shooting Sports Foundation met with
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff to learn about Connecticut's
black bear monitoring project.

Partner with a Payer is a national initiative designed to strengthen partnerships and increase collaboration and understanding among the USFWS, state fish and wildlife agencies, and manufacturers who either pay excise taxes on firearms, archery, and angling equipment, or support the motor boat fuel tax by the products they manufacture. This initiative increases manufacturers' awareness of excise tax funded projects and allows state and federal staff to better understand the role of manufacturers in the support of national conservation funding.

As part of this initiative, two types of events are held to support this important partnership: field tours and facility tours. Field tours invite industry representatives to unforgettable in-the-field experiences that illustrate the importance of the conservation funds that make fish and wildlife research, habitat conservation, shooting facilities, fish hatcheries and stocking, hunter and aquatic education, and public access to lands and waters possible. Facility tours invite state fish and wildlife agency representatives to industry facilities to learn about the processes that manufacturers use to make the products that are taxed and result in a critical funding source for state fish and wildlife agency conservation work.

To learn about past and future Partner with a Payer events, please refer to the communication materials below.

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