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drive to improve behavior of outdoor users—hikers, backpackers, canoeists, bird watchers, campers, anglers and particularly hunters.
“In Virginia, we thought sportsmen should take the lead instead of waiting for the state, especially since the state didn’t look like it would," Dennis explained. “It was a policy decision to protect the future of hunting, not from hunters but from people better described as things. We wanted to make an appeal to the sportsman to improve his own image, to convince the bad actors that they wouldn’t be tolerated by their peers. Basically ‘Operation Respect' began as a self-protective movement.”
“Operation Respect” was kicked off a year ago at a conference held at Fort Pickett. Impetus came initially from a resolution passed in January, 1978 by the state Izaak Walton League, affirming that something had to be done tq clean up the manners of outdoor users and that sportsmen ought to take the lead in the job. At about the same time, the Virginia Wildlife Federation took a similar stand.
Then, in 1979, the Virginia Game Commission formally added its support. With this coalition backing up the effort, Dennis, representing the Izaak Walton League and working with Pete Bromley from the Wildlife Federation and Harry Gillam from the Game Commission, began organizing the Fort Pickett conference.
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