A coalition of the nation’s leading national bowhunting organizations and communications firms have joined to combat the newly elevated threat to bowhunting posed by the merger of two national animal rights groups.

The groups are uniting behind an initial U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance plan to mobilize bowhunters in defense of their sport.

“Bowhunters have proven their resolve in the past and must again demonstrate their might to stave off promised attacks by anti-hunters,â€