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CFACT Driessen Fellow Faith Alpaugh helped lead a group of her peers from the University of Wisconsin River Falls on a field trip spotlighting “hunting education.” Group fills out paperwork prior to shooting Working in Partnership with the Pheasants Forever Club, eight students took a short road trip to Game Unlimited Hunting Club where Victoria gave a talk about the importance of hunting in North America as well as global...

The world is a little bit greener today thanks to the work of CFACT Driessen Fellow Victoria Sellhausen and her student group from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Recently the group organized a tree planting in Downer Woods near the school. Together they spent the afternoon picking out the “perfect” oak tree and identifying a location to display the magnificent hardwood. Being carful to follow department of agriculture guidelines on how to...

The people of Wyoming have been in a contentious fight with wind developers and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regarding proposals by Rock Creek Wind to construct new windmills in the state. Recently CFACT Driessen Fellow Maggie Immen from the University of Wyoming entered the fray.  Donning an eagle costume, the economics and mathematics major joined a crowd of fellow Wyoming citizens at a town hall meeting of...

Gabriella Hoffman made her first trip ever to the state of Alabama and set out on speaking gigs for CFACT across the country, known nationally as an authoritative author and commentator on wilderness and outdoors, regular contributor on Fox News, Townhall, and other media sources. The topic du jour for the evening at Auburn University was why conservation is conservative. Gabriella posing with some of the students The Left often...

CFACT recently co-sponsored a national conference for elected and public policy officials to learn about the gross governmental overstep that is 30x30. This initiative, which has its origins on the global level, is being thrust upon America by the Biden administration is a plan to have governments transform 30% of all land and waters to complete wilderness by the year 2030. If successful this plan would decrease available farmland, limit...

University of Houston Downtown Driessen Fellow La’Vonte Holt led a group of students to make the city of Houston a little better for everyone, especially the children who attend Booker T Washington High School. This part of Houston is plagued with piles of garbage and drug paraphernalia. The cleanup of the street surrounding the school, which led to the removal of more than a dozen lawn bags of trash, took...

Students at Florida Atlantic University, with the help of CFACT, spent the day educating their peers about the Little Ice Age and how this period of global cooling manipulates the graphical temperature data that climate alarmists so often use. Handing out popsicles and flyers with facts about this several hundred-year event which ended in the 19th century, the group was able to engage over one hundred youth with literature and...

Riley Wasler, CFACT Driessen Fellow for Illinois State University, recently organized a nature hike for a number of his peers at the Parklands Merwin Preserve. This preserve contains dozens of unique microclimates that were created thousands of years ago by the Wisconsin Glacier retreat. Today it serves as a favorite hiking destination for Illinois residents. Riley Wasler and others posing during their recent nature hike As the students meandered through...

Ohio State University Students were surprised to see an eight-foot-tall tyrannosaurus rex running around campus with an “I Love Fossil Fuels” sign this week. CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters and Driessen Fellow Chandler Wysocki were the culprits behind this amusing ruse designed to instigate conversations about the importance of fossil fuels to our economy. Speaking with dozens of students about the importance of the oft maligned fossil fuels, The...

Liberty University Driessen Fellow Julia Heath recently provided written testimony to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) imploring the agency abandon its pursuit of so-called renewable energy and instead support the construction of additional natural gas plants. Julia, writing about Dominion Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), stated that the company would need to build gas powered electrical production facilities as a backup for peak and low production periods.  She also...

CFACT has been traversing the Midwest bringing their message of free market solution for complex problems in energy and environmental public policy as being the best options to students. At a recent visit to Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts school near the Ohio-Michigan border, CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters met up with the conservative school’s Driessen Fellow, Jacob Fox.  On campus the two partnered with Citizens for Self-Government,...

CFACT’s National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters gave a presentation to college students in Cleveland, Ohio this past weekend. Invited to a training event hosted by the Leadership institute, Omarr taught students from across the Midwest and Northeast how to become more effective campus activists. CFACT National Field Coordinator Omarr Peters speaking to class The Leadership Institute is considered the preeminent conservative youth training organization in America. Their founder, a former...

CFACT held a successful “Hunting is Conservation” at the University of Louisiana. Home to over 15,000 students, this institution is the second largest university in the state and home of Louisiana’s only industrial design degree.  CFACT National Field Director, Greg Neff, interacted with scores of students challenging them to use a toy gun to shoot an inflatable deer. This activism stunt presented the opportunity to showcase the important role hunters...

CFACT’s highly regarded Collegians program kicked off the 2023-2024 school year this past weekend by serving as one of the sponsors of a large student activism conference in Orlando. Hosted by Young Americans for Liberty, the theme of this gathering was called “Revolution 2023” and it drew roughly a thousand student activists and hundreds of state representatives from across the country. CFACT held a highly successful tabling event at the...

Liberty University, the nation’s largest evangelical Christian university, is home to one of CFACT’s many vibrant campus groups. This past semester our campus group there took it upon themselves to put stewardship of the planet into action by cleaning up the beautiful nature preserve at Percival’s Island. This island, located along the James River in eastern Lynchburg, is home to many of North America’s most beloved species including the Bald...