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Senate releases Fiscal Year 2021 spending bills
The Senate released its 12 appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2021 last week — only a month before the current continuing resolution is set to expire on Dec. 11, potentially...
Conservation in Congress for 2020
The second session of the 116th Congress will likely see progress on some of the conservation priorities advanced in 2019. Legislation passed by the House, such as the North American...
Agency funding bill passes Congress
Congress passed a final spending package on Dec. 16 for Fiscal Year 2020, which includes increases for many natural resource agencies’ conservation and management programs. The final spending bill was...
Continuing resolution passes as lawmakers hammer out funding bills
The Senate sent the president a continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21 as the Sept. 30 end of the federal fiscal year approached. While the House passed...
TWS Council Report
TWS Council Report By Bob Lanka, Central Mountains and Plains Section Representative Unfortunately, I must begin this column by passing on some incredibly sad news. Jane Ellen Jorgensen, a 30-year...
Southwest Section: Conservation Affairs Committee
Conservation Affairs Committee This committee identifies and describes the issues surrounding wildlife management across the Section. Where appropriate, it contributes information relevant to decision making at all levels of government,...
TWS submits testimony on Interior appropriations
The Wildlife Society submitted written testimony to Congress last week on fiscal year 2019 (FY2019) appropriations for programs that support wildlife professionals and their work to conserve wildlife species and...
TWS submits FY18 appropriations testimony
On May 24, The Wildlife Society submitted written testimony concerning the fiscal year 2018 (FY18) budget to the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies....
President’s FY18 budget request illustrates administration’s priorities
On May 23, the Trump administration released their fiscal year 2018 (FY18) federal budget request, A New Foundation for American Greatness. The document outlines proposed spending across the government along...
Government funding authorized through the end of September
On May 5, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017, H.R. 244, authorizing appropriations to fund the federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17), which ends on September...