Trump administration requests refuge funding increase
The Trump administration recently requested an increase in funding for national wildlife refuges for the Fiscal Year 2020 federal budget. This comes just weeks ...
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Congress avoids shutdown and passes spending bill
Averting another government shutdown, Congress passed a $333 billion appropriations and border security package containing language to fund federal agencies ...
White House calls for 5 percent cut in agency budgets
At a cabinet meeting Oct. 17, President Donald Trump asked all cabinet secretaries to reduce their agencies’ proposed budgets by 5 percent for fiscal year 2020. ...
TWS and SAF lead push to protect USFS R&D funding
The Wildlife Society and the Society of American Foresters, along with other professional societies and conservation, forestry, and sportsmen and women’s ...
Senate subcommittee hears testimony on Interior budget
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified last week on the department’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2019 in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on ...
Senate committee questions proposed USFS 2019 budget cuts
Testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Interim Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen described next year’s presidential budget ...
House committees hold Interior, NOAA budget hearings
Last week, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified on the department’s proposed fiscal year 2019 budget before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the ...
Congress passes appropriations bill, increases Interior funds
Last Friday, President Trump signed an omnibus spending bill containing all 12 fiscal year 2018 appropriations bills, preventing another federal shutdown this year ...
TWS supports funding for wetland conservation grants
The Wildlife Society has signed onto a letter alongside hunting, angling and other conservation organizations in support of funding for the North American Wetlands ...
Zinke defends infrastructure, energy plans in hearings
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appeared before the the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the the House Natural Resources Committee last week to ...