115th Congress ends without federal budget, LWCF, RAWA
The lame-duck Congress was unable to reach agreement on the federal budget by the Dec. 21 deadline, sending some federal government agencies into a shutdown. While ...
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Texas student chapters engage on RAWA
The board of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society used a portion of the 2018-2019 Jim Teer Leadership Institute for Early Career Professional Training to work ...
TWS advises Senate committee considering wildlife funding
Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing examining the funding needed for wildlife conservation, recovery and management. ...
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act reaches 100 co-sponsors
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 4647) – legislation that would dedicate $1.3 billion annually towards the conservation and monitoring of at-risk ...
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act introduced in Senate
The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S. 3223) was introduced in the Senate on Tuesday by Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, and cosponsored by Senators Joe ...
TWS co-hosts briefing to promote conservation
On June 21, The Wildlife Society, American Fisheries Society and National Wildlife Federation hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill on Reversing America’s Wildlife ...
America’s declining wildlife requires a proactive solution, report says
A new report released in collaboration between the National Wildlife Federation, American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society celebrates the amazing ...
Combined efforts raise support for Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
Leaders from corporations, state wildlife agencies and NGOs traveled to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to urge their congressional delegations to support the ...
TWS submits testimony on two wildlife funding bills
On Feb. 16, a House Natural Resources panel considered a suite of public land and wildlife conservation bills, including the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund ...
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act legislation reintroduced
Legislation that would dramatically alter the capacity of state fish and wildlife agencies to conserve and monitor at-risk species has been reintroduced to the US ...