Glenn et al
I am on the BOD of AzSFW and can assure that we are alive and well.
Our organization is committed to working on political issues and the political front. Arizona already have fantastic species specific conservation organizations like AES, ADA, ADBSS, AAF, etc...These groups handle all the habitat work in the state and SFW works at the capital. For example, in 2006 SFW sponsored a bill and lobbied it through the state legislature that appropriated 2.5 million dollars to specific wildlife projects that were hand picked by the conservation organizations. I am also on the BOD of the Arizona Deer Association and we got $650,000 for habitat work on the Kiabab. With matching funds the total will be over $4 million for AZ.
As you can see from our website we are opposed to landowner tags and always have been. Don Peay never gave us any money, he did not need to. Contrary to some of the statements made here, there has never been a credible effort to establish landowner tags.
Chris Denham