2003 MOHA Events

December 9, 2003 – Representative Tony Cornish (right) received the Top Gun Award at the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance Annual Meeting, December 9 at Turtle's Social Centre in Shakopee. MOHA President Mark LaBarbera presented the award to Rep. Cornish on behalf of MOHA and the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation as a follow-up to the 2003 MOHA Sportsman/Legislator Strategic Summit at Nicollet Conservation Club earlier this fall where he had the highest score on the clays range.

May, 2003 – Weeks after the MOHA Summit, Governor Tim Pawlenty visited with hunting and fishing leaders like MOHA members Wayne Engler, President of MN Deer Hunters Assoc., left, and Don Liepold, MN Safari Club's Sportsmen's Against Hunger Co-Chair, during a wild game and fish banquet in September at the Governor's Residence.

MOHA Board Member Marv Ziner volunteered his teaching skills to help ladies learn to shoot airguns for fun at the Safari Club International fund-raising banquet in Brooklyn Center attended by legislators, conservation leaders and approximately 500 sportsmen. SCI is one of the top two financial contributors to MOHA.	DNR Commissioner Gene Merriam and MOHA Legislative Caucus Leader Rep. Tony Cornish were welcomed to the SCI event by SCI President and MOHA Board Member Sven Lindquist.
MOHA Legislative Committee Chairman John Schroers presents membership plaques to Representatives Tony Cornish, Al Juhnke and David Dill, and with help from Cabela's Rob Theobald for Rep. Joe Hoppe.
Senator Pat Pariseau, MOHA Legislative Caucus Co-Chair and longtime friend of sportsmen, accepts her leadership and membership plaque from MOHA Board Member Vern Wagner, Minnesota State Conservation Director for the huge Bass Anglers Sportsmen's Society.	MOHA helped Caribou Gun Club near LeSueur launch the first southern Minnesota outdoor heritage expo May 18, 2003, which included the Outdoor Heritage Education Center's Touch of the Wild traveling museum sponsored by Gander Mountain and Illusion's hands-on calling advice for youngsters like this (He and his dad drove from Bloomington for the event) from the Minnesota Duck & Goose Callers Chapter of MN Waterfowl Assoc.