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Hello Kirby.
Welcome to NAFEX!! I want to invite you to my org's Raptor Management and Falconry Seminars beginning on May 8th. We're about an hour+ drive from Lisle - out near Sandwich/Somonauk....

Hi Meagan. Good to see you on NAFEX.

Any more pictures from the meet? I'd love to see some. photoo

Sorry... mistook you for someone else across the pond. (welc) anyway.

Hi Brandon. Nice to see you here on NAFEX! Have fun at NAFA.

Well well... hello Dave .... from a "proper" falconer, Migisi.

If I'm not a member, do I have access?

It's where? helpp

Board appointment of the Prez has always been a point of contention for me. I'd like to know the reason why NAFA chose to do it that way in the first place. Anybody?

It's a British invasion!

(welc)

Honing our skills. Now that's an interesting concept. Never thought of it like that.

If they had a mind to, I imagine so. But it doesn't have to be PETA. Ask Ev how trapping/falconry regs are influenced by Audubon in Michigan.

Yes, one could look at it that way. I certainly do. But do the legislators/regulators know (or care) how big an org reallly is? As a rule, orgs don't submit their private membership rosters along...

Perhaps. Or not. Let's say (for example), AFC rallies its small but active membership, and 200 comments are sent to the politician supporting an idea. Now let's say NAFA tries to rally its big...

Exactly, Tom. In my family, there are three falconers - husband, wife, daughter (actually four - add my brother-in-law). That's the reason I and many others had asked NAFA to adopt a "family"...

An opinion I agree with too. I think it's great that falconers now have a choice. Prior to WRTC/AFC, we didn't. It was NAFA or nothing.

While I believe economics can be a reason for a decline in single memberships, economics didn't cause the longtime member club - the Great Lakes Falconers Association (one of the very first NAFA...

Berni butting in... Like you, I believe in wild take - passionately. And you know me, Ev - and know I prefer passagers to CBs any day. I sincerely believe there'd be no need for CBs if wild take was...

Mike Beebe, Bill Murrin, and I discussed its formation several years before it came to be. I took on the Secretary position, Bill took the President's position, and Bob Herrick took Treasurer. Sadly,...

I'm a WRTC founding member and first secretary. The org was originally formed to insure the continuation of legal take of wild raptors for US falconers - hence, its previous name Wild Raptor Take...

If it's a 'story for a closed thread', why bring it up in this one? If you feel it wasn't 'totally addressed completely or properly', start another one.

Congratulations to NC! Big attaboys out to the "handful" of NC Falconers who worked their tails off for the benefit of all.

Rather 96 informed and active members - than 1800 apathetic and uninvolved members.

I couldn't agree more. frus

Paying attention to the goings-on in falconry orgs - both national, and my state - is what I do. I reckon if I can't change things, at least I won't be caught off guard when the stuff hits the fan.
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