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Whitetails Unlimited’s Project POLITE Builds Trust Between Hunters and Landowners
Wallet-sized card makes exchanging information easy; landowners know who is on their land.

Whitetails Unlimited’s Project POLITE Cards

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Wisconsin – -(AmmoLand.com)- With hunting season just around the corner, finding places to hunt can be a chore for hunters, and a distraction for many landowners. WTU’s Project POLITE can be a simple tool for making hunter access more successful.

Project POLITE Hunter-Landowner ID Cards are an easy way to exchange names, addresses and phone numbers, greatly increasing the trust and understanding for both hunters and landowners. Supported in part by Winchester Ammunition, the paper cards are simply filled in with contact information and provided to each other.

“This is a very simple way to elevate the level of trust for landowners, allowing them to know exactly who is on their land,” said WTU Executive Director Pete Gerl. “For hunters, this is an easy way to build a file of possible hunting locations for the future, and also provides an easy way for the hunter to send a thank you to the landowner.”

A set of five cards and a Tyvek® envelope are available free of charge by contacting WTU national headquarters at (920) 743-6777.

Since the program’s inception more than 20 years ago, WTU’s Project POLITE has opened up over one million acres to the sport of regulated hunting.

For landowners that want to make their land available to hunters, Project POLITE’s bright green Hunting With Permission signs will provide potential hunters with a name and phone number to contact for permission to hunt on posted land. The sign makes it clear that permission must first be granted by the landowner. For hunters, the sign avoids the time consuming process of trying to find out who owns a particular piece of land; and landowners who allow hunters on their land find this an easy way to have hunters contact them. This component of the program is also generously supported by Winchester Ammunition.

Quantities of the 11 x 14-inch signs are available at a reasonable cost by contacting WTU national headquarters at (920) 743-6777.

Companies interested in participating with WTU in a program like Project POLITE can contact Kevin Devault at WTU national headquarters (800) 274-5471.

About:
Founded in 1982, Whitetails Unlimited is a national nonprofit conservation organization. Our mission is to raise funds in support of education, habitat enhancement and acquisition, and the preservation of the hunting tradition for the benefit of the white-tailed deer and other wildlife. When it comes to the whitetail and its environment, WTU’s degree of professionalism and dedication has earned us the reputation of being the nation’s premier whitetail organization.

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Whitetails Unlimited Headquarters Located in Outdoor Playground
If you vacation in Door County, make sure you stop at WTU’s national headquarters.

The dramatic climax of a traditional Door County fish boil is the fiery boil over. Shown is the fish boil at the White Gull Inn, in Fish Creek. Photo © Jeff Davis.

Whitetails Unlimited

Wisconsin’s Door County - -(AmmoLand.com)- Whitetails Unlimited has the good fortune to have its national headquarters in one of the Midwest’s premier vacation destinations – Wisconsin’s Door County. A pleasant side effect of this geographical positioning is that our friends and members of the outdoor industry stop in to visit when they are vacationing on the peninsula.

“We love to have people drop in on us,” said WTU Executive Director Pete Gerl. “We have a great facility here and we love to show it off. It’s always good to have members visit so we can thank them for their support, and it’s always a pleasant surprise when someone connected with the outdoor industry locates us and we find out they’re in the lobby. There is so much to do in Door County, but it’s kind of fun to talk shop for a little while with someone you meet by chance.

Whitetails Unlimited has always been headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, the largest town in Door County. This is a peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan and has more shoreline, and more lighthouses, than any other county in the U.S. There are a dozen private campgrounds, plus five state parks with hundreds of campsites and miles and miles of hiking and bike trails. One state park is accessible only by boat and does not allow any vehicles. “This is one of the worlds best fisheries, with something for everybody,” said Gerl. “There are pan fish and perch, but also incredible bass and walleye fishing, and if you have the boat and gear, or want to charter a boat, you can go after big salmon, lake trout and whitefish in the deep water of Lake Michigan.”

The county also boasts a wide variety of performing arts and music, including the oldest summer stock theater in the country, and a thriving visual arts community. There are enough golf courses to wear out an avid golfer, and a wide variety of outdoor activities are available, like kayaking, SCUBA diving, boat cruises, horseback riding and even a drive-in movie theater.

“We invite anyone who is a friend of the outdoor industry to stop in and say hello when they are in Door County on vacation,” said Gerl. “This is such a great place to live, and I’m a little embarrassed to say that it’s easy to start to overlook what we have when we live here every day. When we get visitors their enthusiasm helps remind us that we need to get out and enjoy our backyard more often.”

The Whitetails Unlimited national headquarters is located at 2100 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235. More information about Door County can be found at www.doorcounty.com.

About:
Founded in 1982, Whitetails Unlimited is a national nonprofit conservation organization. Our mission is to raise funds in support of education, habitat enhancement and acquisition, and the preservation of the hunting tradition for the benefit of the white-tailed deer and other wildlife. When it comes to the whitetail and its environment, WTU’s degree of professionalism and dedication has earned us the reputation of being the nation’s premier whitetail organization.

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