A hard lesson for sportsmen and sportswomen.

Also ending quietly last month was the Maryland Sportsmen\’s Association, not quite 10 years old, the result of hunter apathy and sloppy paperwork. 

Without the anti-hunting policies of the Parris Glendening administration to fire up the grass roots and with legislation breaking its way, MSA lost a lot of its raison d\’etre.
\”Nothing bad was happening. There were still little fights, but nothing scary,\” said Wendy Donahoo, MSA\’s final president.

Even worse, the founding fathers of MSA neglected to incorporate the organization, something that didn\’t come to Donahoo\’s attention until it was too late. When a group of hunters legally took the name for its club, MSA no longer had an identity.