Since we're kinda talking about "goals" in the abstract - Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind.

I'd like to do my part to change the hunting culture as we know it.

We should be placing more emphasis on conservation and opening new areas to the public.We need to seekincentives (public and private)to landowners who allow open access to their land.

I'd like to do my part to raise awareness about quality management, and see the number of hunters stabilize at a level where there is plenty of great hunting to go around. I think we're misguided right now in this whole "recruit as many new hunters as possible" mindset. It just compounds our problems.

I'd just like to see "hunting" as we know it to take a step away from being a multi-million-dollar cash-grabbing industry - and turn back into a hobby that is affordable and successfulfor the select few people who do it. I'd enjoy seeing the image of the American hunter morph back into a true gentlemen of nature: esteemed, brave, intelligentand ethical in all regards. People shouldn't think "trailer trash" when they hear the word "deer hunter." That bothers me to the core. We all need to start taking out the trash. No man should ever hang his head or be embarrassed to tell people that he loves hunting. That's not an indictment. But we've turned it into one... We've gotta do our part toturn the tide.

We all just need to recognize that huntable land is a finite and dwindling resource. As outdoorsmen, we should be doing a whole lot more to protect what we have. People need to recognize the common thread that unites a kayaker on the Gauley River, a bird watcher peering through his spotting scope in Yellowstone, an animal activist outside a kill-shelter, a tree-hugger wearing a tie-dyed shirt chainedto apiece of pole timbersomewhere, a mountain biker on an abandoned snowmobile trail in the Allegheny National Forest, an old man sitting at home reading National Geographic, a downhill skier in Lake Tahoe, and a hunter perched over a cornfield edge- an undying devotion to animals, wildlife, and the outdoors. If that's what's important to all of us - I'd like to see all of us stop wasting millions of dollars fighting against each other - and funnel those efforts and resources into what REALLY matters to all of us. Protecting what we've got.

I just wish people could see the common ground.