Committee approves Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
Last week, the House Committee on Natural Resources voted to approve the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 3742), which would provide about $1.4 billion to ...
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Administration’s regulatory agenda would affect wildlife
Many of the anticipated rules released by the White house Office of Management and Budget’s semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions will ...
House passes the North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act
Recent passage of the U.S. House of Representatives passed the North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (H.R. 925) would reauthorize and increase funding ...
The Wildlife Society concerned about BLM move
The Wildlife Society sent a letter to the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt last week, expressing concern about the plan to relocate the Bureau of Land ...
Senate committee approves LWCF bill, Interior nomination
As Congress prepares for the upcoming Thanksgiving recess, the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee made several important decisions including ...
Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act introduced
Last week, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. and Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., introduced the Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 (S. 2891/H.R. 5179), which would support ...
House Agriculture Committee examines invasives
At a recent House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture hearing, witnesses offered testimony on invasive species like nutria ...
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act surpasses 150 co-sponsors
Congressional support for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 3742) continues to grow, with 152 representatives now in support of the legislation. The ...
Minnesota rejects lead ammunition ban
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources denied a petition last week to ban lead ammunition in hunting and lead fishing tackle on waters where loons are known ...
Gunnison sage-grouse recovery plan released
A recent draft recovery plan the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released for federally threatened Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) would relocate the ...