A former Midland resident and
Dow Chemical VP is now the chairman of an national conservation council.
John Tomke recently was appointed chairman of the new Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council. The council is an advisory group to the federal Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, and is in place to promote and preserve the nation's wildlife and hunting heritage.
Tomke, former president of Ducks Unlimited and current president of Ducks Unlimited de México, was named to the council by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
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Tomke served on the similar Sporting Conservation Council, under the George W. Bush Administration, and noted this week that that group issued a list of 58 action items that should be addressed by the administration to follow.
"This Council will now look at implementation plans for some or all of (the 58 action items)," Tomke said in a phone interview ... from his Carmel, Ind., home.
Tomke made it clear that the Council, not its chair, would choose and prioritize implementation plans, but indicated he was confident that among its focuses would be increasing public awareness of the role of Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Fund programs in funding wildlife work; fostering wildlife and habitat conservation and hunting ethics; recruitment of hunters and other conservationists, and helping assess federal programs.
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