Fancy promotions and advertising hype don't mean squat if the product doesn't produce.  Tuesday at the Yamaha super-secret test lab here in this riverside community, the boating journalists got to see what all the fuss was about.

Most boating parents tell their kids they have to wear their life jacket because it's the law. However, getting young boaters to embrace life jackets just got a little easier with the 2010 BoatUS Foundation Life Jacket Loaner Program Wall Calendar

The Future Fisherman Foundation (F3) today announced the launch of a new program, Tournaments for Tomorrow, that will provide financial support for youth fishing programs such as the mentor-based Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs program, the school-based Physh Ed angling and boating education program, and the Boys & Girls Clubs' C.A.T.C.H. after-school fishing program.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has appointed James Curcuruto as director, industry research and analysis.

The National Wild Turkey Federation distributed nearly $250,000 in October 2009 as it continues to advance its mission of benefiting wildlife conservation and protecting hunting traditions. The dollars are distributed to states and programs through the NWTF Hunting Heritage Super Fund.

Kids & Clays benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities would like to thank all of the people who participated in the 2009 National Drawing. Tickets were sold beginning at the SHOT Show in Orlando last January, at many of the Ronald McDonald House Sporting Clay events, and culminated at the National Sporting Clays Event in San Antonio on November 1, 2009 where the winning tickets were drawn.

For several years, the Texas chapter of the national Children & Nature Network has been exploring ways to reconnect families and children with nature and the outdoors. The national movement grew out of Richard Louv’s 2006 book “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder.”