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ASD/AMD Trade Shows announced a one-time-only relocation of the ASD/AMD Military Tactical Outdoor Show to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The move will affect only the upcoming March 2008 show.

Due to a conflict with another event, the Las Vegas Convention Center will not be available to host ASD/AMD in March 2008. The dates and location for the Sands Expo Center and the Mirage Hotel will not change.

Show management will be moving exhibitors from both the upper and lower levels of the Las Vegas Convention Center into one large hall of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for this show only.

"We've picked up the floor plans and dropped them into the Mandalay Bay plan with as little disruption as possible. Booth numbers will change but proximity to the front door, booth configuration, number of booths and neighbors will remain essentially unchanged," said James Smith of ASD/AMD.

Show management stated that exhibitors will return to their same locations and booth numbers at the Las Vegas Convention Center in August 2008.

After polling literally hundreds of attendees and exhibitors, ASD/AMD received overwhelming support for a plan to reduce the number of days of the Las Vegas events by dropping Thursday as a show day.

"By cutting this last day, we'll concentrate buyer traffic during the four full days while decreasing exhibitors' and attendees' total T&E expenses. Although there will be one less (partial) show day, the future events will have 34 open hours over the 4 days vs. 35 hours over 5 days in our current configuration. Therefore, starting in March of 2008, all future Las Vegas events will run from Sunday through Wednesday," Smith confirmed.

National hunting and fishing day returns

Congress established National Hunting and Fishing Day in 1971 to acknowledge the conservation and economic importance of sportsmen and women.

Now 35 years later, a strong majority of Americans still agree with Congress' message.

September 23rd marks the 35th annual National Hunting and Fishing Day. The special day of recognition approaches alongside a new national poll showing a strong majority of Americans 18 and older support hunting and fishing.

In fact, the 2006 survey shows support for hunting has actually increased from 10 years ago.

"We have been seeing public support for hunting increase at state levels, but this is the first nationwide study where we could verify that public support has increased over the past decade. In 1995, 73 percent of Americans approved of hunting. In 2006, 78 percent approved," said Mark Damian Duda, executive director of Responsive Management, which conducted the survey.