Join us tonight Friday, March 26th. Tonight we will be talking with Richard Shaw, Secretary Treasurer of the Harris County AFL-CIO Central Labor Council.
We will also have Jim Klatt, Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Union Sportsmen’s Alliancelocated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in 2004 after retiring from his marketing and advertising agency business in Minneapolis. He worked as a grassroots organizer for TRCP conservation programs across the country and helped launch the cooperative efforts between TRCP and Labor Unions that eventually lead to the formation of the USA.
Jim has been a conservation leader for many years both in Minnesota and around the country. He helped found the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance in 1994 and was president for 8 years. MOHA was instrumental in passing two landmark constitutional amendments in Minnesota. The first, in 1998, guarantees the right to hunt, fish and trap in the state, and the second, in 2009, dedicates a percentage of the state sales tax to conservation. In 2008 he was selected as Conservation Person of the Year in Minnesota.
He is a graduate of Michigan State University and spent many years working in communications, from editing national magazines, to directing communications and recruitment for Peace Corps and VISTA. He has hung his, hat, and hunted and fished, in British Columbia, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Missouri and New York.
The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance will be hosting a Houston Shoot on Saturday, April 24, 2010, with registration at 7:30 a.m. and a Shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. and lunch and A raffle to follow. The event will take place at the Rio Brazos Sporting Clays in Simon, Texas. You do not have to be an experienced shooter; new shooter instruction will take place from 8-9 a.m. All proceeds from this event support the USA and national & local conservation efforts. Deadline for entering is April 12, 2010. For more information, please call Heather Tazelaar at 1-877-872-2211 or email HethT@trcp.org. More information on the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance can be found at http://www.unionsportsmen.org/.