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		<title>Hunting and Fishing Excise Taxes: Big Benefits for American Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine a business investment that yields a return of more than 1,000 percent. If you were to guess the industry where such a return on investment (ROI) was possible, most people would guess energy, technology, defense or medical industries or even that historic standby, real estate. But they would be wrong. Such investments are a reality, however, in the sportfishing,]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gun-Grabbers Inadvertently Benefit Wildlife</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen Wunderlich]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just when it seems everything in the economy is down, comes this news.  Michigan is eligible to get more than $17 million, up from $12.3 million in 2012 and from 2010 when Michigan received a record $16.1 million in proceeds from federal excise taxes.  The more gun-grabbers talk, the more wildlife benefits.  The irony is here&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Families Afield Help Boost Hunter Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EDGEFIELD, S.C. &#8211; As hunters anticipate autumn&#8217;s first trips afield, a national effort to remove barriers for youth and novice hunters, Families Afield, has helped reverse a decade-long decline in hunting participation. The Department of the Interior recently released findings from the U.S. Fish &#38; Wildlife Service (USFWS) 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife Recreation study. More than]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Firearms Industry Helps Lead Economic Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEWTOWN, Conn. &#8212; The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, has released a newly commissioned report detailing double-digit gains in jobs and other data showing the industry has been a leader in the nation&#8217;s economic recovery. The report can be viewed at http://nssf.org/impact. Firearms industry members were briefed on]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>75 Years of Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Program Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — This year marks the 75th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Pittman-Robertson (also known as Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration) Act, which directs excise taxes collected on the sale of firearms and ammunition to be used exclusively by state wildlife agencies for improving wildlife populations, hunter education and public access to the outdoors. The benefits]]></description>
		
		
		
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