Tag: policy

A new Western Invasive Species Council launched by the Western Governors’ Association launched last week launched last week will enhance coordination and communication regarding invasive species management across the western...

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...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity have reached an agreement last week to review the status of grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act. The...

Aurelia Skipwith was confirmed as new director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after the Senate voted last week, filling a position that has been vacant since the start...

The Bureau of Land Management and partners will study the effectiveness of a fertility control vaccine that works in just one dose in feral horses previously removed from the wild....

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 state, territorial and tribal 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 affect The Wildlife Society’s conservation priorities....

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 for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, which...

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 Management’s headquarters to...

As Congress prepares for the upcoming Thanksgiving recess, the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee made several important decisions including approving Land and Water Conservation Fund legislation as well as...