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Scott Smathers How YOU can make a difference as a conversationalist

Scott Smathers How YOU can make a difference as a conversationalist  says….So from the standpoint of getting involved, I mean, I don’t care if it’s a local chapter of the local bass club, Whitetails Unlimited, QDMA, any one of those groups, Pheasants Forever, and one of these groups. Get involved! Because you’ll see the other side of the fence. You will see the disturbing numbers, quite frankly, of the reduction in folks that are pursuing life in the outdoors, chasing our passions.

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Scott Smathers You’ll see that there are folks making decisions, that quite frankly don’t have a vested interest in the future. And like I said, my passions run from the time I was old enough. My next door neighbor, I said, he took me up bird hunting when I was ten, carried an old Harrington & Richardson single shot .410. He made me keep my shell in my pocket the first two times we walked the field.

Scott Smathers  Of course, I didn’t know any better and the whole point was he was teaching me patience about when you’re up on bird hunting, obviously is waiting for that point, that flush, and not to be nervous, and to practice my skill set of shooting. And I was hooked. But I had that opportunity of somebody to teach me. I had somebody to guide me. My dad was an avid angler and I have extremely fond memories of many, many hours on the water with him, education I gained from him not only about fishing, but also about life that, like most people, it didn’t really hit me that he was that bright until I was 25 or 26. But the passions. You have to get involved!

The Sportsmen’s Foundation, it was founded in 2002 here in Nebraska by a group of six outdoorsmen… says Scott Smathers

The Sportsmen’s Foundation, it was founded in 2002 here in Nebraska by a group of six outdoorsmen that were concerned at some of the legislation that was being proposed within our state senator’s body and wanted to be able to provide a voice to those senators about who we are, what we are, and what we represent in the state, and what we do from a conservation standpoint.

Scott Smathers It has just grown from there. Now we as an organization sit at just under 13,000 members in our state and we have a very active voice. We work on positive legislation, defeating negative legislation, educating those who don’t understand why we do what we do. And if you can get involved at any level and then make your voice heard and pay attention to the issues, we are going to be able to protect what we all love. We’re going to be able to protect it for the next generations.

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