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Holland made a statewide radio address urging people to vote. That year nine amendments were on the ballot, and Holland backed three of them: an amendment that would streamline the process for amending the state constitution, the gas tax amendment and another that would create a state freshwater fish & game commission.
The railway engineer Alexander Luders Light founded the "Triton Fish and Game Club" in 1886, in an area with more than 200 lakes. Formerly very aristocratic, the club has hosted great personalities of world history, including Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as members of the Rockefeller and Molson families. [2]
The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club was a Pennsylvania corporation that operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania. Its members were more than 50 extremely wealthy industrialists and their families.
A 1905 hunt at the island's Belvedere Club, with twelve guns, shot 376 ducks. [17] However, in June 1905, the owners of Joice Island decided to use the land for agriculture, forming the Joice Island Asparagus Company. This corporation was capitalized with 1,000 shares of stock sold at $100 each, for a total of $100,000 ($3.39 million in 2023). [18]
The International Game Fish Association is a nonprofit, tax exempt organization, supported by its membership and governed by an executive committee and Board of Trustees. An elected International Committee of more than 300 sport fishermen and women represents the IGFA in fishing areas throughout the world.
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Corbin Park (also known as the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve) is a private game reserve in New Hampshire. It contains land in Croydon , Cornish , Plainfield , and Grantham . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It occupies somewhere between 24,000 and 26,000 acres (97 and 105 km 2 ) of land [ 3 ] and was started in 1889 by businessman Austin Corbin . [ 1 ]