Tag: policy

December 14, 2016

President Obama updates Executive Order on invasive species

Last week, President Obama issued an executive order that directs member agencies of the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) to consider human and wildlife health, climate change, and innovations in...

December 13, 2016

Interior and tribes sign agreement on hunting management

On Nov. 29, the U.S. Department of the Interior and Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission (AITRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) that elevates AITRC’s role in wildlife management on federal...

December 9, 2016

States file suit over new critical habitat rules

On Nov. 29, a group of 18 states filed a lawsuit in opposition to changes made this year to how critical habitat can be designated for federally threatened and endangered...

December 9, 2016

TWS sends letter to Trump, transition team

The Wildlife Society sent a letter Tuesday congratulating President-elect Donald Trump on the results of the election and introducing TWS and the collective interests and expertise of its members to...

December 8, 2016

BLM approves planning proposal

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a strategy, known as Planning 2.0, with the goal of making land-use planning more efficient, more accessible to the public, and more adaptive...

December 2, 2016

NRCS expands working lands conservation program

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has added 11 new projects to the Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) program, which incentivises conservation of wildlife on private...

December 1, 2016

Sage-grouse rider removed from defense bill

Congressional committee members have removed an amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 that would have impacted conservation and management of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)....

November 29, 2016

Young researchers call for science in environmental decisions

On Nov. 15, early-career scientists and researchers wrote an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and six cabinet members calling for greater incorporation of science in Canada’s environmental...

November 21, 2016

USFWS finalizes impact statement on eagle take permits

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) that analyzes the potential impacts of a proposed revision to bald and golden eagle take permits. Proposed...

November 18, 2016

Wildlife policy in the lame duck session

Following the election of President-elect Donald Trump and nearing the end of President Obama’s administration, Congress was back on Capitol Hill this week for the beginning of the “lame duck”...