Tag: policy

The Water, Oceans and Wildlife subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee met last week to consider several wildlife conservation bills, in a legislative hearing chaired by Rep. Jared Huffman,...

The House Natural Resources Energy and Mineral Resources subcommittee held a hearing last week on The Need to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain, including the  Arctic Cultural...

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized changes to its management plans for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation on public land in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming, completing a process...

The Wildlife Society’s Executive Committee recently approved a new issue statement on wildlife killing contests. In the document, The Wildlife Society discourages contests that adversely affect the wildlife resource or...

Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club and the National Wildlife Refuge Association sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in an effort to halt the winter feeding program at the...

Last week, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a new secretarial order related to public access for outdoor recreation on public lands. This is one of two new secretarial orders Bernhardt...

The president’s recently released Fiscal Year 2020 budget proposal would decrease funding for many important wildlife management and conservation programs. Overall spending levels for both the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish...

The Water, Oceans and Wildlife subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the State of Wildlife last week. The hearing was the third in a series led by...

The Trump administration recently requested an increase in funding for national wildlife refuges for the Fiscal Year 2020 federal budget. This comes just weeks after the Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations...

Last week, during the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would delist the gray wolf (Canis lupus)in...