RAWA bill introduced in the U.S. Senate
Last week, Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in the U.S. Senate. The landmark legislation would provide about $1.4 billion annually to state, territorial...
TWS renews position statements on energy and invasives
The Wildlife Society Council recently renewed and updated two position statements that were due to expire later this year. Revised position statements on Energy Development and Wildlife and Invasive Species were...
Lawmakers and agencies face escalating wildfires
The western United States is in the midst of an historic fire season that may surpass last year’s fire numbers. Last year’s total of 60,000 mostly human-caused fires burning nearly...
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House-passed highway bill provides funding for wildlife crossings
A highway bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month includes important funding for wildlife connectivity. The $715 billion legislation extends for another five years the current...
Wild horse and burro populations decrease in past year
The number of wild horses and burros on public lands has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to a new report from the Bureau of Land...
TWS and AFS support research units in spending bill
As the U.S. House Appropriations Committee considered the appropriations bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, The Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society sent...
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Bills introduced to fight extinction crisis, protect birds
A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives late last month would classify the “global wildlife extinction crisis” as a national emergency. That would require the U.S. Fish...
TWS chapters ‘visit’ hill for Recovering Act
Representatives from several chapters of The Wildlife Society joined other members of the Alliance for America’s Fish and Wildlife last week for a virtual fly-in event, meeting virtually with their...
Biden administration fills key leadership positions
Five months into the Biden U.S. administration, leadership at the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture is falling into place. Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna,...
