Tag: legislation

August 1, 2019

Coalition rallies around Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 3742) was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 12. Over 60 original cosponsors joined Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich. and Jeff...

July 12, 2019

TWS backs reintroduced Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act was reintroduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich and Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb. They were joined by over 50 of...

April 3, 2019

House subcommittee discusses wildlife conservation bills

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,...

March 7, 2019

Public lands package passes House, sent to president

The House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bipartisan public lands package last week, a week after the Senate did the same. It now goes to the president’s desk to...

February 21, 2019

New Mexico legislation would limit trapping on public lands

New legislation to limit trapping on state and federal public lands in New Mexico has been advanced by the state legislature’s House Energy & Natural Resources Committee. The Wildlife Protection...

February 20, 2019

Study: States outdo Congress in pollinator conservation laws

States are passing more legislation relating to pollinator conservation than the federal government, researchers found, but they say more laws are needed. In a study published in Environmental Science and Policy,...

February 19, 2019

Senate reauthorizes LWCF, conservation programs

Picking up after its debates on the legislation package in December, the Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). This bipartisan package contains more than 100 different bills...

February 14, 2019

TWS supports bill to study CWD

TWS recently sent a letter to Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., thanking them for addressing the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Chronic Wasting Disease...

February 13, 2019

TWS supports legislation to empower R3 efforts

TWS sent a letter this week to Rep. Scott Austin, R-Ga., supporting the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act (H.R. 877), recently introduced in the 116th Congress. The legislation would...

February 6, 2019

Members of Congress reintroduce the WILD Act

Last week, Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Tom Carper, D-Del., and Reps. Alan Lowenthal, D-Cal., and Don Young, R-Alaska, reintroduced the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act(S. 268/H.R. 872),...